FOUR YEARS
MAY BE NEEDED TO BEAT JAPAN, AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S VIEW. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, November 24. Hitler may be crushed within a year but at least four years are needed to beat Japan, said Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling. Juhr., former Commandant at Pearl Harbour. “The Japanese certainly will not give in if Hitler is beaten, but will come back again and again. That is their history.” He said: “They will go to suicidal lengths to regain Guadalcanal because without it they could be expelled from New Guinea and New Britain.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 3
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91FOUR YEARS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 3
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