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world. Their pride suffered more and more until the "pride business" had a bad case of the "jumps" on all occasions. Their pride and their prestige in China are the main things affected by the exclusion act. The average Japanese knows no more about America than the farmer behind the Kansas plow knows about Manchuria. He is told by his superiors that the national pride has been hurt by America and that instead of being the great benefactor as he had been lead to believe, the United States is now the darkest of demons.

32. Japan needed stepping on badly and needs more of it. A little now will do a great deal of good in the future. Unfortunately, our diplomatic representative in Japan handled our case very badly. When the matter of the exclusion laws came up, instead of maintaining a dignified attitude as the representative of the great American republic in Japan, he gave utterance to all sorts of puerile statements and complaints with the greatest publicity. These gave the decided impression in Japan that the Congress of the United States was acting contrary to, not only the will of the executive, but of the majority of the people of the country. This has tended

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