JAPAN
FATAL FANATICISM "Whatever inner weaknesses she may have Japan went into this war with the determination of fatalism. She entered the struggle without enthusiasm and without illusions, but til so without a visible tlaw in her morale. The Japanese are that kind of people. This is at once their strength and their weakness. That is why, of all the questions raised by the war with Japan, the one least worth considering is that of Japanese morale. It may be that France was overrun in six weeks because its will to resist had been broken in advance. It nia3 r be that Germany will collapse in time because its spirit is broken. But Japan will, not be defeated for any reasons having to do with the psychological impact of war en the spirit of the Japanese people.. That can be dismissed at once. The subjective aspects of the Japanese at war are of little consequence. The Japanese' being what they are, they will be brought to sue for peace when they »re defeated on the land., on the sea, rind itl the air." —-Mr N. Peffer in the New York Times.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 2
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