The reading clerk read as follows: APRaL 10. 1924. EXCcLLrNc : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note of April 10. In which. referring to the recent report of the Committee on Inmmigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives (Rept. No. 350. March 24. 1924). you took occasion to state your Governments understanding of the purport of the socalled " gentlemens agreement" and your Governments practice and purposes with respect to emigration from Japan to this country. I am happy to take note of your statement concerning the substance of the socalled "gentlemens agreement" resulting from the correspondence which took place bet-.en our two Governments in 19078. as modillcd by the additional undertaking of the Japanese Government with regard to the socailed "picture brides." which became effective four years ago. Your statement of the essential points constituting the gentlemens agreement corresponds with my own understanding of that arrangement.
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