Japan's Entry To Colombo Plan
(Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. Japan’s entry into the Colombo Plan would be the first major item on the agenda of the 14-Power Colombo Plan Consultative Committee meeting in Ottawa on October 4, Commonwealth officials forecast today in an interview with a Reuter correspondent. These officials said that present indications were that Japan would enter the plan, with full membership, as a donor nation. It was learned that the Japanese Ambassador in Ottawa, Mr Koto Matsudira, would be standing by in anticipation of an invitation to take a seat at the Ottawa talks, the correspondent said. Japanese Embassy officials would say only that Mr Matsudira hoped to be called into the meeting “at least’’ as an observer. But Commonwealth authorities had described Japan's full participation in the plan as a “foregone conclusion, barring' accidents. ’ ’
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27463, 24 September 1954, Page 13
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