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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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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “I ask fair treatment for the Japanese as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, or…”
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Roosevelt requests fair treatment for Japanese people, equating it to the treatment expected for other nationalities.
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