Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese Ambassador Hanihara wrote a letter to Mr. Hughes, concluding:
I am, my dear Mr. Secretary, Yours very truly, (Signed) M.* HANIHARA. To this Mr. Hughes replied: My dear Mr. Ambassador:
Very sincerely yours, (Signed) CHARLES E. HUGHES.
His diplomatic pen protested against the immigration cut as being an unjust discrimination against Italians. That was all. Diplomatic necessity had dictated that a note be written to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, but there was written into it Caetani's personal aristocratic restraint. His predecessor, Signor...
Secretary Hughes had previously proposed that the 2% restriction be applied to Japanese just as it is to be applied to other nations. Under this restriction only 246 Japanese could enter per year. Here was a practical way out, but Hanihara's "grave consequences" have apparently made it impossible...