JAPANESE EXCLUSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1001, 28 April 1924, Page 12

JAPANESE EXCLUSION.

WARNINGS TO AMERICA. TOKIO, April 25. The United States Ambassador, Mr Woods, daily receives delegations urging him to use his good oflices to prevent the enactment of the American immigration law. It is significant that most of the protests come from the youth of Japan, such as students' societies, young men'* Buddhist Association and groups of Japanese who have been educated in America. The Japanese Liberals, therefore, while admitting privately that the enactment of exclusion will affect no change in the present international situation, nevertheless express profound misgivings ,as to the future, declaring that exclusion will create juvenile disgust with America's professed sincerity and disinclination to follow American leadership, especially because Japan's disillusioned youth within 20 years will lead Japanese opinion. Several of the newspapers, abandoning restraint, are beginning an attack on the United States. The Yomiuri says: "The exclusion is aimed, not only at Japan, but at all dark races. America is now at the zenith of its power, but it should remember that pride goeth before a fall." — A. and N.Z. table.