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...consequence of anti-Japanese utterances in the House and the retention of the Japanese Exclusion feature, Section 12 (b) of the Johnson Immigration Bill, Masanao Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., protested to Secretary of State Hughes. The correspondence was notable as eliciting concrete expression of the famous "Gentlemen's Agreement," negotiated by President Roosevelt with the Japanese Government in 1908, in lieu of specific Japanese exclusion legislation...
Meanwhile Masanao Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., speaking before the Japan Society in Manhattan stated: "Not only did we declare our intention at the time of the conclusion of the present commercial treaty of 1911 between your country and mine to exercise voluntary control over the coming to this country of our emigrants who are not desired here, but we have been most scrupulously and effectively carrying it out in deed...
...Japan, His Excellency Masanao Hanihara, Ambassador for Japan...