OUR GIFT TO JAPAN
Our Gift To Japan THE SURPRISE ACTION of the House Com-mittee on Immigration in voting for repeal of the infamous Chinese Exclusion Acts sets a magnificent example which both Houses of Congress and...
...AMERY: Letters have passed from time to time between Mr...
...The censorship is so tight that the Vancouver Federationist in Canada complained that "since the war began less news has come out of British dominated India than has come out of Nazi-occupied Europe...
...The Japanese have been quick to exploit American and British political blunders and have been far more successful than most of us realize in winning acceptance of their prime propaganda appeal that their great mission is to liberate the Far East from western imperialism...
...Gandhi's arrest, the government of India decided that he should not be afforded any opportunity of expressing or conveying his views to the public, either in India or through me...
...Amery, the Churchill government's Secretary for Indian Affairs, is reported in the proceedings of Parliament : MR...
...William C. Johnstone, an authority on the Orient, confirms much that Harry Paxton Howard wrote months ago for readers of The Progressive...
...AMERY: No, sir...
...President Roosevelt's timely call on Congress for authority to speed Philippine independence has "embarrased" the British and led their diplomats in Washington to complain that this American consideration for the Filipinos may have "ill effect on Britain's Indian and other Far Eastern possessions," according to Marshall Field's pro-Administration, pro-British Chicago Sun...
...In view of the circumstances of Mr...
...This lack of news, especially news of the independence movement, is no accident...
...Meanwhile, that unhappy land of 400,000,000 humans is the scene of the most incredible starvation and the most brutal suppression of civil and political liberties to be found in any country outside Hitler's Europe...
...Sorenson, a member of the British Parliament, and Mr...
...Our Chinese Exclusion Acts, however, can't be blamed on the British, and Congress should act speedily on the recommendations of the House Immigration Committee and destroy that gift to Japanese propagandists...
...Writing in the current issue of the "Far Eastern Survey," Prof...
...Indians who protest, who plead for independence, or clamor for Gandhi's release from prison are thrown into prison themselves...
...But this is far from being the fact...
...The pending legislation would merely remove the harsh and humiliating discrimination placed on the Chinese alone and put them on a strict quota basis, which would actually enable only about 105 of them to enter each year...
...Our Gift To Japan THE SURPRISE ACTION of the House Com-mittee on Immigration in voting for repeal of the infamous Chinese Exclusion Acts sets a magnificent example which both Houses of Congress and the President should translate into law at the earliest possible moment...
...SORENSON: How, then, can the public form any opinion on the views Mr...
...Johnstone makes it clear that Japan's Wang Ching-wei puppet government in China has recently won a far greater following among Chinese as a result of the Nipponese policy of offering what appear to be tremendous concessions to the ambitions and self-respect of the Chinese people...
...Gandhi and the Home Department of the government of India, but I am not prepared to disclose the number or their contents...
...So the American desire to free the Philippines may have to be postponed because we mustn't embarrass the British in their desire to keep India...
...The Committee's action, which would permit Chinese immigration to the United States on a quota basis, packs a triple wallop: 1. It comes in time to honor the anniversary this week of the founding of the Chinese Republic...
...3. It gives the United States a weapon, however inadequate, to combat the shrewd and distressingly successful Japanese propaganda campaign in the Orient...
...We Embarrass The British THE EXTENT to which the British cramp our style in the Far East by the Churchill government's devotion to 19th Century imperialism can be appreciated by examining a few developments of the past fortnight...
...Substantial portions of China are cooperating with Tokyo in the war against the white man's imperialism...
...Gandhi has about the present situation ? MR...
...SORENSON: Could we have no idea of whether the communications were of a political nature, making any representations or any protests...
...A fascist-like British censorship prevents America from knowing how great a mockery her principal partner is making of the Four Freedoms in a land three times more populous than our own...
...The famine in Bengal has become so great that even the New York Times reported in a cable from London that "the average Briton is deeply shocked" because the crisis "is clearly man-made...
...There has been widespread disillusionment, even in the parts of China controlled by Chungking, with the conduct and objectives of the Anglo-American partnership in the Far East...
...Most Americans have a hazy notion that all of China is in arms against the Japanese and that Americans are regarded as white knights compared to the marauding Nipponese...
...AMERY: It is not desired that they should...
...The following exchange between a Mr...
...Looking at the whole thing for a moment solely from the cold-blooded viewpoint of political expediency, this is a trifling enough price to pay for a bit of Chinese good-will...
...Our own political warfare in the Orient has been puny by comparison, partly if not largely because we are tied so closely to Britain's hated imperialism...
...The Sun explains the British position this way: Britain has told India that the war crisis makes independence out of the question until the war is over...
...2. It launches Congress on the way toward removal of an unjust and indefensible legislative insult to a great people...
...Contrary to the distortions in the Hearst press and the tearful laments of a few old-line labor bosses, repeal of the Exclusion Acts will not permit the flooding of the American labor market with "coolie" labor...
...For the United States to announce immediate independence for the Philippines, now occupied by an enemy, and with the war in full blast, would knock out this argument of Great Britain against India's independence now, diplomats said...
...Prof...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 42
