Tokyo, May 20.
The Foreign Office spokesman replied negatively when asked at a press conference today whether the Japanese Government had received any reply from Germany to the Japanese communication of May 11 querying the Reich's attitude to the Netherlands East Indies.
The spokesman expressed pleasure that other Powers concerned fully shared Japan's concern for the maintenance of status quo in the Netherlands East Indies.
No importance was attached to the German silence, he said, because he did not think any untoward express sion would come from that quarter.—Reuter.
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