ABSTRACT
The population of the white people in different quarters of the world is calculated at seven hundred millions, while the non-whites number eleven hundred millions. The fact that these two groups are now sharply divided on account of the white people formally refusing to admit the other races on a footing of equality can only tend to accentuate racial prejudices which will far from realize President. In the years before and during World War I racial discrimination reached new intensity, and for Japan the foreign policy manifestations of this prejudice had been serious. The Japanese delegates understood perfectly well, however, that any successful resolution on racial equality would come not from words in the press but rather from careful and exacting negotiations with the other representatives in Paris. The violent race riots, rejections of racial equality, and dashed hopes for self-determination all emerged anew from the Paris Peace Conference.
