Teddy Roosevelt said "I ask fair treatment for the Japanese as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, or Italians." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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I ask fair treatment for the Japanese as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, or Italians.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt requests fair treatment for Japanese people, equating it to the treatment expected for other nationalities.

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