I should like to add a little footnote to this discussion on a measure that I believe can be of the greatest value to us in winning the struggle in Asia that we have got to win. When history is written I suspect that one of the major causes of World War II and of world war rn1if. God forbid. it comeswill be recognized as beginning in 1924 when the Congress of the United States passed the socalled Oriental Exclusion Act. At that time Americas stock was at about the highest point it had ever reached in Asia. True. we had opened Japan at the point of a sword. but we had then established good relations. and these Japanese forces most favorable to the United States were in the saddle.
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