France knows that she must have the support of Great Britain in opposing the menace of reconstructed Germany and of Japnn in preserving her conquests and aggressions in China. Consider further that beneath an impassive exterior Japan cherishes a grievance against us of the bitterest and gravest. sort. Under our laws no foreigners except whites and blacks. are eligible to citizenship by naturalization and no Japanese laborers may enter our country. Japan regards this as an insult. a badge and brand of inferiority. a discrimination iraposed by the white race o1 the yellow. Our laws exclude tile Chinese laborers by name. but Japan. -with the abnormal sensi-: tiveness and pride of the newly arrived. would not tolerate such an indignity. and through the socalled gentlemens agreement we permit her to enforce our immigration laws as to her subjects. Of course. this is to her an evidence of cowardice on our .part and but deepens her determination to press the issue at every opportunity. She does not enforce the gentlenmens agreenlent honestly because she holds that her farmers and gardeners are not laborers.
Identified stereotypes
Japanese are abnormally sensitive and proud.