AMERICA AND JAPAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18159, 2 February 1921, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN

SHIDEHARA-MORRIS PACT,

ATTACKED BY SENATOR JOHNSON

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 29. Senator Johnson attacked the ShideharaMorris Agreement, which, he said, meant that the United States and Japan had agreed to repeal the Californian law, and to prohibit the passage of similar laws contemplated in many western States. He also criticised the administration of the new “ Gentlemen’s Agreement,”/ which could be just as loosely administered as the old “ Gentlemen’s Agreement.”

Mr Colby (Secretary of State), answering Senator JohnsonV attack, declared that the latter had arrived at an erroneous assumption concerning the trend and purport of the conversations between Mr Shidehara and Mr Morris; and at all events nothing would or could be done without the Senate’s consent. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

[A cablegram from Washington, dated January 26, stated: “It is understood that the substance of Mr Shidehana’s and Mr Morris’s conclusions is an amendment of the existing commercial treaty between Japan and the United States, in order,to grant Japanese subjects lawfully present in the United States equal rights with the people of any other foreign nation, save citizenship on naturalisation, and a revision of the existing ’ Gentlemen’s Agreement,’ absolutely prohibiting Japanese _ emigration to the United States and Hawaii, but permitting it to the Philippines.”]