PACIFIC PROBLEMS.
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JAPAN’S ATTITUDE. COMMENT RY MR. WJDFORD. / THE exclusion laws. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received- Nc.v. 20, 11 a.m. „ •m ■ „ SYDNEY, Nov, 20. Mr T. M. Wilford, interviewed, spseking of, the Pacific problems, said that the Japanese as a people were not internationally aggressive. ' He knew, however, despite the pacific nature of -the people, the generous or elder statesmen of Japan had the: private ef * r . Emperor. It was on their whisperings that decisions of war were arrived at. Mr Wilford said that the exclusion laws of America would never furnish a cause of war. The exclusion laws of Japan, though not so called, were equally effective against the United States as against every nation of the world. No foreigner could engage in agriculture in Japan, nor could he hold property or practise professions without impossible conditions. Mr Wilford .stated that Japan did not want to fight Australis or New' Zealand. She wanted only an alteration in our immigration ..laws. There was no necessity for her to fie aggressive if we were willing to have them, said Mr Wilford, but we were not willing.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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187PACIFIC PROBLEMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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