Mr, Matsuoka was seen off at the Schulenburg; the Italian Ambassador, Mr, Augusta Rosso, other Soviet oficials and the Ministers of the Axis powers Previous to his departure. Mr, Matsuoka categorically denied to Domei reports that lé had met the American, Ambassador. Mr. Laurence A. Steinhardt, and the British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps, before proceeding to the Kremlin where he conferred for 90 minutes with M. Stalin and M. Viacheslav M. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and concurrently Foreign Commissar.
Mr. Matsuoka also laugilingly dismissed the rumour that M. Erik Labonné French Ambassador, had Been present at the Kremlin when the Japanese Foreign Minister met the Soviet leadérs—Domei,
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