U.S.A. AND JAPAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1924, Page 5

U.S.A. AND JAPAN

■ PROTEST AGAINST NEW LAW. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) TOKIO, April 26. Mass meetings of all classes have been held in Tokio and Osaka, protesting against the American immigration Law. The League of Nations Association adopted a resolution appealing to the League of Nations Union at Washington to use its influence to prevent the Bill becoming law. The United States Ambassador, Mr. Woods, is daily receiving delegations urging him to use his good offices to prevent the enactment of the new

law. It is significant that most of the protests come from the youths of Japan, such as,the students’ societies, Young Men’s .Buddhist Association and groups of Japanese who have been educated in America. The Japanese Liberals therefore, while admitting privately that the enactment of the exclusion bill will effect no change in the present international situation, nevertheless express profound misgivings as to the future, declaring that the exclusion will create juvenile disgust with America’s leadership and sincerity and disinclination to follow America’s leadership, especially because Japan’s disillusioned youth, within twenty years will lead Japanese opinion. Several newspapers, abandoning restraint, are beginning to attack the United States. The “Youmiuri” says: “Exclusion is aimed not only at Japan, but at all dark' races. America is ! now at the zenith of her power, but

she should remember that pride goeth before a fall.” M. Yamoto predicts that exclusion will awaken pan-Asiatic sentiment as an effective world, force. PRESIDENT’S ENDEAVOURS WASHINGTON, April 26. President Coolidge is attempting to work out an arrangement with respect to Japanese exclusion which will satisfy those favourable to restriction, and at the same time avoid affront to Japan. This is according to an official announcement, but details are not revealed, and it is impossible to state now whether anything .could be accomplished. An arrangement of this nature under consideration, would permit the President to sign the Immigration Bill, regarding which those who have conferred with him declare he is considerably disturbed and which he has been advised by some administration advisers to veto.