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...special town meeting of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was called to order in Tokyo's monumental Diet Building last week by His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan...
Reporting on the Sphere's recent expansion, Premier General Hideki Tojo advised that Russian territory was not expected to receive the benefit of further expansion for the moment: "Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union have undergone no change. . . . With progress of the war, enemy countries will, I presume, intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the Soviet Union, but there is no chance for such intrigues to bear fruit so long as the Soviet Union firmly maintains the attitude mentioned...
Premier Tojo went on to recommend India's cooperation in the Sphere: "Since all the outpost bases of the British Empire for defense of India are in the possession of Japan, the golden opportunity is offered to the Indian people to rise and obtain their liberty. . . ." Premier Tojo suggested that the Indian people eject British and American troops from India. "As long as [they] remain, Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them...
...Quarter-sphere defense may be feasible from a military viewpoint. Economically, Professor Spykman believes that it is hopeless "without the tin and the tungsten of Bolivia, the copper of Chile and the tungsten, wool and tanning products of the Argentine, our war industries would be seriously crippled even if we could produce in northern Brazil the materials -which now come from the tropical zones of Asia and Africa...
...forum will consider some of the problems of reconstruction in the social, economic, and political sphere which will demand immediate attention as soon as the war ends. The Council feels that students should give these problems serious consideration now, believing that the methods of solution are being determined today, and has already sponsored several talks and discussions bearing upon the general question of peace-planning...