THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD.
BY EVELYN WRENCH.
IIIHE future relations of the United States and Japan have occupied much space in the American Press during the past month. The problem of the exclusion of Asiatic immigration is one which is ever present in American minds, but it has again been brought to the fore as a result of the discussion in the United States Senate of the Johnson Immigration Bill. The exclusion clause was passed by 76 to 2 votes. Despite the President's opposition, the House of Representatives adopted by 308 to 58 the recommendation that the Immigration Bill shall become operative on July 1st. Subsequently the Japanese Ambassador in Washington expressed the hope that Congress would refrain from resorting "to a measure that would seriously wound the proper sus- ceptibilities of the Japanese nation." The controversy has been followed with close attention in Japan, and many of the Japanese newspapers refer to what they term "the anti-Japanese agitation in the United States" and derisively they ask the question : "Are Japanese people ? "
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