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 Turkey satisfaction, and thenceforward all Turkish subjects were treated alike.

At the conclusion of the debate, the Chamber of Deputies called upon the administration to undertake negotiations with Russia for an interpretation which would definitely set aside the objectionable discriminations. (Débats parlementaires, 1909, pp. 3763–3780; Am. Jewish Year Book for 1911, pp. 66–76.)

It is dangerous to temporize in respect of legal principle with class, race, or religious discriminations. The United States, after a long and bitter struggle, has happily extirpated from the body of its organic law all such discriminations affecting its citizens. Such discriminations should not be permitted to enter by the back door, as it were, through weakness or vacillation in the enforcement of the rights of citizens in international relations.