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...quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 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...
...Pope deferred for a year issuance of his Encyclical, corresponding intrinsically to a new President's first message to Congress. But when the Latin document was finally made public in 1923, it referred to the occupation of Rome by the Italian Monarchy, with the words: "We protest! And we ought to protest...
...waive sovereignty but desires to share in the road's management, and the Russo-Asiatic Bank, the institution which, under an agreement made in 1920, represents Russia's interest in the railway. A proposal to displace the Bank with regard to the railway called forth a protest from Paris. The Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) reminded China that French citizens owned 60% of the bank stock. Japan also viewed with alarm the decision of China to recognize the red republics federated at Moscow...
Unless the Peruvian Government or the Guaranty Trust Co. cares to issue further statements, the charges of President Leguia will be dropped without official action by Washington. The State Department hopes, however, that Senor Leguia will not renew his protest as, in that event, the U. S. Government would be obliged to issue a reply to his allegations...
Morris Gest, producer of The Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...