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March 23-Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's Foreign Minister, visits Moscow...
March 26-Foreign Minister Matsuoka arrives in Berlin for talks with Dictator Hitler...
April 13-Foreign Minister Matsuoka, again in Moscow, signs neutrality pact with U.S.S.R...
During the week German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
...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...