Word: exclusionism
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Much interest was evinced at the able speech made by Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara (onetime Ambassador to Washington). After declaring that his foreign policy would be to promote and to protect Japanese interests "with due respect to those of other nations," and after affirming Japan's duty to be the...
U. S. Exclusion. "The genesis of the Immigration Act lies in the marked increase of immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
"First, exclusionists say the Japanese are unassimilable with American life, and the introduction of such alien elements would prove a source of danger to the United States. This formed the essential plea for the exclusion of the Japanese. It was not on account of inferiority of the Japanese race that...
"Thirdly, it should be appreciated that the President and the Secretary of State of the United States have, from the outset, shown opposition to the exclusion clause. Public opinion in the United States, reflected in a great section of the American press, appears sympathetically disposed toward Japan's position.
"Our protest against the exclusion clause is based on the conviction that discriminatory treatment, as laid down in that clause, is contrary to the dictates of justice and fairness, and is imposed upon us in disregard of the ordinary rules of international comity. Legislation is now an accomplished fact in...