Speech #670203466

I happen to be familiar with what occurred under the previous administration. I claim no familiarity with what has since transpired. but I happen to know that after months of negotiation Mr. Morris and Baron Shidehara united in a report. a report wholly unsatisfactory to the people whom I represent. but a report that is on file now in the State Department concerning the matters which had occurred between the Japanese Empire on the one hand and the United States on the other. arising out of the alien land laws of this country. and arising out of the question of Japanese immigration. They were consulting for months and months and months and months. They were writing letters. communicating with each other. holding consultations. for months and months. but so careful are our friends. in a treaty that they claim means mere consultation. that they write into this treaty a reservation that they will not permit the writing of a letter or any communication between the parties or a consultation of any kind concerning a question that they had been writing about. communicating. concerning. and consulting about for months and months in the past.