Whatever the merits of that phase of the quarrel were. it was the migration of Japanese subjects into Manchuria which became the basic cause of the conflict now raging throughout the East. Second. The war between China and Japan. which began 4 years before we entered the struggle. was Chinas war for the survival of China as a nation. The threat suggested by some of the sponsors of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts that China may desert the United Nations and join Japan in a war for Asia for the Asiatics. if such legislation be not passed. is international political blackmail. It is blackmail against an ally now mobilizing all its forces to crush Chinas traditional enemy. Japan.
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Asiatics Chinese Exclusion