The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
BY MILES w. VAUGHN United Press Stan COrrcSpOn(lent

(UnitCd Press Stan COrfCSpOn0ent) Tokio-(UP)-In Q low straw matted house in the Azabu district Masano Hanihara, one time Japa- nese ambassador to the United States is dying.
 Physicians say that Hanihara is dying from congestion of the brain but his friends say he is dying from Q broken heart because ot his misunderstood diplomatic memorandum which preceded the passage by congress of the Japa- nese exclusion clause in the U. $. immigration law.
 This misunderstood memoran- toward the U. $. which has en- dured through the years and the recall of Hanihara by his govern ment and the end of his career as a diplomat.
 Hopes to Sec Wrong Righted
 "Hanihara hopes only to live to see the United States right. what he believes. the grave wrong done Japan by adoption of the exclu- sion clause" one of his closest friends told the United Press. If congress does adopt repeal of the clause, which now seems possible, Hanihara will die. happy, feeling that the unintentional part he played in this tragedy of inter- national relations has been atoned. If it does not he will die q broken hearted and embittered man.
 But nobody has heard Hanihara has expressed his confidence thnt af fntt {,, xs,in hn fyscti L. fled.
 Public Statement ~
 One of the last public state- ments made by the diplomat was in December 1929 in an article he wrote for the United Press where- in he said: Ut is true that Japan has one gravamen against the United States. It Is the unfriendly manner, to say the least, in which the American congress treated the decent and friendly approach of Japan on the matter of non- discriminatory treatment of her people as such.
 "Resenting, as they do, that un- fortunate event (passage of the exclusion act) the Japanese are not foolish enough to regard it as a 'casus belli.' They know that 1t was in no way due to the hostile intentions of the American people against their time-honored friend. Besides war would not settle the question involved.
 with that counsel in mind Japanese are patiently hoping for the arrival of the day when their implicit faith in the American sense of justice and fairness will be rewarded"
 Tragedy of Life
 The tragedy of Hanihara's life began when he took, upon himself to write to Secretary of State Charles F. Hughes. when the United States immigration act with it's Japanese exclusion pro- visions. was pending in the senate in 1924.
 Hanihara honestly felt that he would do a service both to his own country and to the American peo- pie If he informed them of the wounded feelings that inevitably would be aroused among his countrymen, if they were shut out of the United States by discrimin- atory legislation. $,
 Full of this anxiety, he wrote his famous letter, which now through the mist of years seems almost pathetic. In a language not his mother tongue he de- scribed it as grave consequences" |" not realizing, he says, the inter pretation that would be given-it.
 The senate immediately con- strued the ambassadors phrase as threat, and, its dignity affronted. forthwith passed the law that has been blight on US. Japan friendship ever since.
 Hanihara. of course. could no longer remain in Washington, and he retired under cloud, return- ing to Tolsio. The Japanese always have looked upon Hanihara as the sacrifice offered on the altar of maintaining Japan-American re- iafions at least outwardly friendly.
 Forecast Correct The s'grave c0nsequences' as Hanihara had foreseen them were