Tokyo, Feb. 26.
we had more territory, we would be able to exploit and cultivate It efficiently, " spokesman of the Gal-Musho said to-day in the course of Statement dealing with the forthcoming Geneva deliberations on raw materials.
Japan, the official emphasized, is usually" classified as a "have-not" nation. The Japanese, he added, have Proved themselves capable of devel-aping the resources of the land they owned. Japan's limited territory, he declared, is too small to feed her teeming population.
"The spokesman revealed that the Japanese Government has no objection to the acceptance by Mr. Yasundo Sude, Commercial Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Berlin, of his appointment by the League' of Nations as a member of the special committee on raw materials which will open its deliberations in Geneva fon March 8. It was emphasized that Mr. Sude, although serving on the committee as its Japanese member, will do 0 in his private capacity.
The spokesman said he could not understand why Italy and Germany refused to be represented on the League's committee—Domel,
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