Speech #820210835

Already 400.000.000 people in China have been misled into communism by the Communist conspiracy. If we lost any more people. we could find ourselves in an untenable position. The junior Senator from Minnesota yesterday mentioned the fact that one of the acts which irritated and antagonized the Japanese people was the Japanese exclusion act. It is a matter of historical recordand no Senator can produce evidence to the contrarythat. more than any other one thing. the feeling of the Japanese people that we in America thought they were an inferior people by the enactment of our immigration law motivated them to become militaristic and imperialistic. and finally resulted in their delivering on us the blow at Pearl Harbor. which plunged. us into a war that lasted for more than 4 years. I ask any Senator to disprove what I have said. namely. that history records that our discrimination against oriental people caused us to lose the good will of the oriental people and brought down upon us the harvest of antagonism and animosity of the oriental people. Mr.