The Department of State. therefore. has good reason to hope for the continued and increased effectiveness of public and private efforts to do away with these discriminations. Dean Rusk. Assistant Secretary of State for Asiatic Affairs. recently emphasized that our own example was of the greatest importance to the construction of democratic institutions in southeast Asia as bulwark against Communist propaganda. He added that "our torch of liberty does not shine quite so brightly outside this country as we think." John Foster Dulles joins in the plea to erase what he calls "the worst blot on our national escutcheon." The Supreme Court of the United States has recalled in a recent opinion that resentment against the discriminatory California land laws passed in 1913 "was so violent inside Japan that demands were made that war be declared against the United States. AntiAmerican agitation grew rapidly." Prof.