"Humiliation"

Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, former Minister of Education, spoke thus in the House of Peers at Tokyo:

"The seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts the exclusion law [now being discussed in Congressional committee]. The Japanese could not submit to the humiliation of being treated like Negroes. A prophet is not required to predict a crisis in American-Japanese relations. Every believer in world peace is duty bound to oppose the passage of this most unreasonable measure."

He urged the Government's closest attention to the situation. The Premier, Viscount Kiyoura, replied that the situation was being "closely watched."