The State Department has been working on this problem. It knows the precarious situation of the tuna industry of the west coast. and certainly the State Department knows the character of the proposed legislation which is now before the Senate. When the State Department. having knowledge of all those facts. then fails to present a case properly to the Japanese people. with the result that there develops a situation which the State Department admits now existsnamely. a situation in which the Japanese are comparing this proposed tuna tariff to the Japanese Exclusion Actthen I think the Senator from New Jersey will agree with me that the State Department has utterly failed in the performance of its responsibility. So far as unilateral action is concerned. let me say that if the State Department had properly represented the United States position to the people of Japan. no one would have considered our action to be unilateral action.
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