EXCLUSION ACT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 5

EXCLUSION ACT.

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JUSTICE

*T OABLI—FBBgS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT . WASHINGTON, May 31. Ine text of the Japanese protest against exclusion has been published It stresses that the measure wholly disregards the spirit of the circumstances which underlie the treaty The commerce and navigation of Japan will no longer be able, in view of the ex. elusion, to continue undertakings assumed under the Gentlemen's Agreement, the patient, loyal and scrupulous observance of which for sixteen years appears to have been wasted. Japanese immigration into the United States is too recent to permit of a judgment concerning the assimilability of the race. The note further declares that the pressure of invidious discriminations to which Japaense residents in some American States had beep subjected have not afforded an atmosphere suitable to demonstrating their adaptability. National discriminations, even if based on purely economic reasons are opposed to the principles of fairness and justice, upon which the friendly intercourse of nations must depend. Japan therefore enters a \£ mS 7*s*2!* Aagainst exclusion.-, Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn