Word: hanihara
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...dislike of the proposed act. Admittedly the only reason for postponing the date of exclusion is to throw some sort of diplomatic sop, to permit the Japanese Government to save its face. Theoretically, the question over a date for Japanese exclusion is ridiculous; practically, it is serious. Undoubtedly Ambassador Hanihara when he committed the colossal diplomatic blunder of speaking about "grave consequences" if the bill were passed, spoke little but the truth. The essence of diplomacy is to appreciate the truth and keep it to oneself...
What would he say to the passage of the Immigration Bill? Would he take his cue from Japanese Ambassador Hanihara (TIME, April 21, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and make "veiled threats?" Would he castigate the U. S. Congressmen for their unfeeling attitude toward thousands of expectant Italians? Would he discourse upon the injured dignity of his country? He was known to be deeply and personally interested in Italian immigration to the U. S., he had even worked out a selective system, whereby Italian farm laborers would be sent from Italy to supply the shortage...
...Government endorsed smiling Ambassador Hanihara's "grave consequences" note, denied that it could be construed as an attempt to influence the legislation of the U. S., declared that Japan was not interested so much in how many people she could or could not send to foreign lands, but in the principle involved which permits one nation to discriminate against another. Continued friendship for the U. S. was, however, evinced in the most responsible quarters...
Premier Kiyoura, referring to the unfortunate words, "grave consequences," contained in the Hanihara note to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, said: "If we have not already made our friendship for the U. S. clear in a language foreign to us, we have at any rate shown it by a long record of friendship which may now be impaired, but never broken...
...meanness of the Senators' action is shown "by their distortion of Ambassador Hanihara's words to suit their own purposes. The Americans declare that the yellow and other dark races are not entitled to consideration as human beings, since they do not belong to the Caucasian or Negro race...