They are also required to perform military service i Japan unless released In a similar manner. Thousands fail to make the necessary applications in both respects and are citizens of both countries. owing allegiance and military service to both. Our Government some decades ago recognized the menace of yellow immigration even of temporary nature *to American labor. and exclusion laws were enacted against oriental laborers. the purpose being to exclude laborers from China and Japan by name in order to make exclusion certain. Japan objected to any law excluding Japanese laborers by that name because it injured her sense of equality with the white race. just as our permanent policy excluding the yellow race from American citizenship Is the chief grievance of Japan against us. however groundless it may seem to us to be. So we made an informal agreementa socalled gentlemans agreementwith Japan by which Japan agreed not to permit Japanese laborers to come to this country.
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