Japs Tough Enemies But Must be Crushed

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 209, 2 September 1942, Page 5

Japs Tough Enemies But Must be Crushed

LEFT NO ROAD FOR RETREAT WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. The former U.S. to Japan, .sir. Joseph O. Grew, saiu in a broaucast; 'There is not sumeient room in the r’acitte for the peaceful American and. peace-loving United Nations and sw&shouckling japan. The JapaQese military caste and military system, whose cruelty and brutality has caused this war, must be crushed. “No one should entertain, even momentarily, the idea that the Japanese army’s failure in China has discouraged the Japanese people. On the contrary, it has steeled them to greater sacrifices. “Furthermore, the Japanese High Command relied on the white man’s flabbiness. They regard us as constitutional weaklings, unwilling to make sacrifices for victory against a machine which prepared and trained with Spartan simplicity. “When Japan Btruck she left no road for retreat.” Mr. Grew expressed confidence that “we can defeat the Japanese,” but said: “Victory is remote unless we realise we are fighting a powerful war machine and a people whose morale cannot be broken by economic hardship but only by complete physical defeat and physical expulsion from the areas Which they have temporarily conquered, and also by progressive attrition of their naval power and merchant marine, resulting in cutting off their homeland from all the outlying areas..’’