Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are several specific factors which tend to create discord between the two nations. Japan is immensely over-populated and her expansion is a necessary step in the course of events; the Japanese resent our racial discrimination against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions...
...confidently promising what shall and shall not be done by the administration during the next four years, and his confidence has carried him far. No good ever came or is likely to come from promises so freely given, especially when they deal with international disputes and racial prejudices. There are times when words accomplish more harm than good. Senator Lodge is a clever statesman, but he seems to have forgotten, for the time being, diplomacy and tact...
...White Australian policy," said Mr. Vaughan, "is one designed to keep Australia free from such racial problems as exist in this country and in South Africa. It is a policy directed towards the total exclusion from the Commonwealth of all nations of Asia. But if danger threatened it would equally apply to colored people of other countries. All parties are agreed as to the wisdom of such a policy...
...flame than has yet been the case. When violence, lynching, anti-Japanese Ku Klux Klans, and race-riots make their appearance in the West, as they no doubt will if the Japanese are allowed to take possession of the land and the work which the American considers his by racial right, we shall have a situation much more dangerous to international peace than the present slight wound to Japanese sensibilities...
...clauses" of some Southern States, may be in conflict with the spirit and letter of some fundamental clauses of the Constitution, but they deal with emergencies which that document was not designed to meet specifically, but only generally and abstractly. They are attempts at a peaceful settlement of pressing racial problems. And the Californians, far from being "scare-mongers," have done their proper part towards forcing the nation to settle a question of whose gravity few people outside of California are aware. The Californians are distinctly on the side of peace. RALPH M. EATON, Instr. November...