The Archive · 1931

Oriental Exclusion from America

Washington, July 31, Proposals were advanced here today that the United States, [Chamber "of, Commerce, adopt a resolution calling upon the United [States to abandon its policy of [Orient exclusion, The immigration conumittee of the United States Chamber of Commerce to-day recommended that the Directors of that organisation {go on record as against the exclusion of Orientals, especially the Japanese.

In place of the present policy of jexelusion the committee would substitute a quota system which would annually admit 180 Japanese to the United States. This, it is [contended, would mut Japan in the same status as tendered by Berlin, Aug. 2

The dean of German physicists, Professor Emil Warburg, died in his eighty-sixth year at Bayreuth to-day. Professor "Warburg's claim to fame rests chiefly on his discovery of the so-called Kinetic Theory of Gas which he made long before the war, together with Dr. Kundt-—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

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