President. to point out that the Declaration of Human Rights is the subsequent document not contained in the treaty itself. Returning to the opinion: We have shown that the expansion by the Congress of the classes of nationals eligible to citizenship has correspondingly shrunk the group ineligible under the provisions of the alien land law to own or lease land in California until the latter now consists in reality of a very small number of Japanese. The other Asiatics who still remain on the proscribed list are so few that they need not be considered. Clearly such a discrimination against a people of one race is contrary both to the letter and to the spirit of the Charter which. as a treaty. is paramount to every law of every State in conflict with it. The alien land law must therefore yield to the treaty as the superior authority.
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