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b 7 GENERAL JAPANESE SITUATION 1/19/24. PAGE Ge (6) Forthermore, when actual strength reaches a point where it oan not be overcome it ie possible to maxe suitable compromises. Taxes the case of the Jews. Since they have acquired actuas strength which cannot be overthrown they have been compromised with. The same thing has happened in connection with the anti-Italian question, the anti-Irish question and the anti-German question, But in the case ef the Japanese matters have not yet reached that point. It may be that the reason for the intensity of the anti-Japanese movement is the idea that the Japanese are going to become graduaily atronger and that if repression is undertaken now they oan be repressed. ; in) it is a regrettable fact that the anti-~Japanese move- ment in the last ten years has been oarried on systematicaily and on a large scale. Of course there were anti-Japanese movements fifteen years ago and even twenty yeata ago, bat the largé and systematic movement which has been carried on for the past ten years is something which we really cannot understand. Its propaganda for the most part has ignored the facts, aonsiating of exaggerations and imaginings about the Japanese loudly proclaimed as facts. If these propagandists were moved by patriotiam they ought not to be hoodwinking tle .public by all sorts of lies. Moreover, thie must have involved wery large expenses. Wherd all this money has been coming from ie another thing whigh we cannot understand. a iano a a ried POLY