A DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTY.
The Washington authorities have struck a diplomatic difficulty in dealing with the question of the restriction of Japanese immigration -into the United States. Japan has undertaken to do something in the matter, but that something does .not seem to inspire unbounded confidence in the United States Department of Commerce. Nevertheless the Government exhibits a delicacy, that is in no way characteristic of "Yankee Doodle," in dealing with the little brown men, who are evidertly feared as much as their prasence in America is popularely detested. The United States Government is hampered in its action by an unwonted impulseof courtesy. The State department officials have become phenomenally gentle towards the "Jap," and fin 1 that "it is not easy to convey to Japan, even by suggeston, the desirability of amending her "plans, without wounding her pride i" When the Government of a nation like the United States becomes so tender with a nation which but a little while ago was looked upon as semi-barbarous, surely the world is reaching that millennium to which Tennyson looked forward, but was unhappily unable to live long enough to witness. ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 4
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188A DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 4
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