"SEEDS OF FUTURE WAR"

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 7

"SEEDS OF FUTURE WAR"

AMERICAN EXCLUSION LAW.

RESENTED AS HUMILIATING.

(DNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)

(AUETRALUN-NEW ZEALAND CAiLB ASSOCIATION.) TOKIO, 25th January.

The House of Peers was the scene of a double sensation. Baron Yoshiro Sakatini, ex-Minister for Education, supplementing Baron Matstii's remarks, declared that the "seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts her exclusion law. The Japanese car/hot submit to the humiliation of being treated like negroes. It requires no prophet to predict a crisis m Ameri-can-Japanese relations if the measure passes."

Later, Marquis Tokugawa, making his first address in ten years, astonished his Conservative colleagues by a heated attack on the/Government, declarin^that the present state of politics threatened to precipitate a revolution because of the excessive representation of the peerage in the Kiyoura Cabinet. Tokugawaadded that he would seek to persuade the Ministry to resign. Tokugawa's speech caused visible discomfiture to hjs cousin, Prince v Tokugawa, who was presiding, but it gained the support of many of the peers.

l The -> Japanese Foreign M;iniste*, Baron Keishiro Matsui. addressing the opening of the session1 pf the Imperial Diet, declared tEat the treatment of the Japanese on the Pacific Coast of the United States was regrettable. This problem wag exceedingly complicated and delicate, and the Government was paying special attention to it. "We are putting forth onr best efforts in order that the problem may be treated in a spirit of mutual respect, by both sides,"- he stated.