Wasbingion, Apr. 27.
Mr. Kilsook Kaan, head of the Chinese-Korean Peoples League of Honolulu, yesterday urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee at a hearing on proposed revision of the neutrality law 10 support the Thomas Amendment calling for an embargo on U.S. war materials to Japan.
He also urged that the United States should fortify Guam. When this is done, he said, "fear of war in the Pacific will be a passing fancy and the threat to Hawaii. Alaska and the Panama Canal will be eliminated for a long period."
The passage of the Thomas Amendment would demoralize the Japanese and strengthen the morale of Chinese, Koreans and liberal Japanese. hi declared. The Thomas Amendment. he said, would provide Oriental goodwill which would pave the way to.the greatest United States prosperity, revitalizing Pacific commerce, He warned that an expanding Japan threatened the western hemispheres.
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