Tokyo, Mar, 16, The Harbin correspondent of the 'Asahi' said today that Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister now en route to Europe, told him he did not intend to stop over in Moscow on the way to Benin, (Mr, Matsuoka was reported to have said that "the present is the best opportunity to make the trip because any big event is unlikely in the Far East, intend leisurely, intimately and fully to talk with the German and Italian leaders and will probably discuss the application as well as the strengthening of the tripartite pact," the correspondent quoted him as saying.
"I cannot tell how greatly these conversations might affect Japan's future policies but they constitute ihe best present, although invisible, that I can bring back to the Japanese nation,""—United Press.
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