Tokyo, Feb. 17, does not- claim leatietship over all: peoples within the East lotic sphere of common prosperity, but believes that the Foreign lie "Mi. Yosuke Matsuoka, in reply to an sed of the" capabilities of-Jeading them, de~
ation regarding the Netherlands, and especially the Netherlands East Indies, which "refuse to be included in an East Asiatic sphere: of common: prosperity," in the Diet today.
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