JAPAN: Pipe

No peace pipe is the briar that Japan's crop-haired Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka smokes vehemently on all occasions. As an Axis-minded statesman, Mr. Matsuoka has taken much criticism, but last week it was not his policies that drew fire. In Tokyo, Dr. Doichi Okada, head of Japan's Anti-Smoking League, publicly begged the Foreign Minister not to set an unhealthy example for young people by puffing in public, posing pipe in mouth for photographs.

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