JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Southland Times, Issue 19458, 24 January 1925, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP NEED FOR CLEAR UNDERSTANDING. THE PACIFIC PROBLEM. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cabla Association.) TOKIO, January 22. (Received January 23, 11.30 p.m.) The Foreign Minister, Mr Shidehara, addressing the Diet, declared that Japan regarded the immigration dispute with the United States as settled for the time being. It was evident that the two nations should live in cordial friendship all the time and co-operate in the great mission of promoting peace and security in the Pacific regions and throughout the world. “We are confident,” he said, “that these views are shared by the vast majority of the American people. With regard to the discriminatory clause against the Japanese in the United States’ Immigration Act, 1924, Mr Shidehara said that the question w’as still unsettled, but it should be remembered that the law could only be modified by a law and under the American constitution, the legislature was entirely independent of the executive. It was obvious, therefore, that a continuation of the discussions between the two Governments at this time would not serve any useful purpose. What was really important in the final analysis of the question was that the American people shall come to have a correct understanding of the Japanese people, and their points of view. Impetuous moods and impassioned utterances would not conduce to an international understanding. There was no doubt that the same love of Justice that kindled .American independence still inspired the minds of the American people. The day would come when the fact would be fully demonstrated. NEW YORK, January 22. A move against Japanese immigration into Missouri was made by Senator McCawley in the State legislature at Jefferson City. He presented a Bill modelled on the Californian law which would bar any aliens who were not eligible for American citizenship from owning real estate or property in the State.