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...There can be no suggestion that those acts could offend British prestige or dignity. They merely demonstrate rudeness, lack of calm, and should be treated with patience and pity...
...Convention in Cleveland, the Republican National Committee assembled there to decide contests between delegations. As usual, the chief contests concerned the delegations from the South where Negroes have a prominent part in the organization. And the Negro question was very significant- for Negroes have been migrating northward, and to offend them might lose the Republican Party large blocs of votes in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. In the first contest a delegation of two was accredited from the District of Columbia, one of the two a Negro. In a contest over the delegates from Mississippi, Perry...
...Bible was freely quoted: "Six days shalt thou labor". . ."The laborer is worthy of his hire". . . "If any offend the least of these, better would it be if a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were drowned...
...annually outspoken note, the Japanese Ambassador denied the charges that Japan had violated the "Agreement" and declared that Section 12 (b), providing for exclusion, "would not only seriously offend the just pride of a friendly nation. . .but would also seem to involve the question of the good faith, and threfore the honor of their government. . .I have stated all this in a most friendly spirit, for I realize the grave consequences which the enactment of the measure would inevitably bring upon the otherwise happy and beneficial relations between our two countries...
...census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary of State Hughes had previously opposed that provision on the ground that it would offend Japan. The total exclusion provision would break the commercial treaty of 1911 which allowed Japan to send immigrants, but was accompanied by a "gentleman's agreement" that the Japanese Government would not issue passports to the laboring class. To save the treaty and the agreement and amity of Japan, Secretary...