JAPANESE IN AMERICA
JOINT COMMISSION PROPOSED
RANCOUR AND PREJUDICE
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(Received July 11, 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 9. The Chicago Tribune's Tokio correspondent says the plan propounded by Japanese official circles, for a joint high commission of prominent Americans and Japanese to investigate the Japanese situation in America, is gaining popular approval here. Admiral Kat 0,.... commenting on the plan.'says' it is important that an investigation should be held before the Presidential election compaign, since the Japanese question is; certain to be an issue in many western (States. He said: "We havfe' no desire to assume an attitude of forcing anything oh America, but we believe many good Americans are anxious to settle the question of immigration, citizenship, and land ownership by the Japanese in America on a basis of true justice after the actual facts hav© been obtained. The sooner such a commission is appointed and reports the quicker will it be possible to s,ign a treaty and remove the rancour and prejudice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 3
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