Evening star., 1942-09-18
Japan will Not Crack
But Must Be Crushed
Grew Tells America
Former Ambassador
Expects Eventual Collapse
In Berlin, Not in Toxic,
) the Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 18.-De.
scrihing Japan as our most formid-
able enemy, far tougher than Ger
many. former Ambassador Joseph C.
Grew told war rally luncheon here
today that the Germans cracked in
1918 and they will crack again, but
the japanese will fight until they
are utterly crushed.
Mr.. Grew, who was an American
diplomat in Berlin in 1917 and
American Ambassador in Toxic in
l941, indicated he was profoundly
shocked to hear people in this coun.
try talk as if Germany in time
would be defeated "and then well
mop up the Japs."
German morale will not survive a
series of setbacks. But he added, in
a speech broadcast over the NBC
network.
THE japanese will not crack
They will not crack morally or
psychologically or economically, even
when eventual defeat stares them in
the face. - Only by utter physi-
cal destruction or utter exhaustion
of their men and materials can they
be defeated"
4n Confidence Is Superb.
'That," he said, "is the difference
between the Germans and the jap
anese. That is what we are UP
against in fighting Japan"
~ 1t Is difficult for Americans who
have never lived in Japan, Mr.. Grew
continued, to form any conception
OF the overweening confidence of the
japanese Army and Navy in their
ability to subjugate not only large
areas of Asia but of the Western
Hemisphere, too.
Al You realize that the Japanese
are already in the Aleutian Islands
don't you?" he asked. Not far
from Alaska =" mention it merely
us a concrete indication of what
the armed forces of Japan hope to
do, and what they intend to do
and what they will do if they can
First to bomb important American
centers and then, eventually, invade
America.
"And let us not allow ourselves to
be deluded into thinking that these
hopes are merely pipe dreams, i'm
possible of fulfllment. The Japa-
nese may seem to us fanatics and
at times, barbarians. But in build
ing their army they have been -ex-
tremely practical and level-headed
forging military nation which to-
day must be recognized as one OF
the most formidable in the world.
They Hit Where Not Expected.
The Japanese have trained long
and arduously for full-scale modern
war Mr.. Grew pointed out, and have
made a speciality of following the
impossible" route to their objec-
tive"
Indeed, the japanese themselves
have said that their tactics have
frequently been based on the prin-
ciple of attacking through particu-
lar area in the knowledge that their
enemies have been lulled into a
false sense of security and COM
placency by the very assumption of
its impassability"
The most important factor in Japa-
nese victories, however, is "the spirit
which permeates all the armed forces
Of the empire"
Illustrating the fanatical, uncom-
promising sterness of this spirit,
Mr.. Grew told how he once received
from the Chinese government the
name of a Japanese who had been
taken prisoner in China and who
wished to let his family in Japan
known he was alive and we'll The
Ambassador communicated this in
formation to the government In
Toxic, which replied that it was not
interested in receiving such infor-
nation. So far as they, the gov
ernment, were concerned, and also
10 far as his own family was con-
cerned, that man was officially dead
So The man who allows himself
10 be captured has disgraced him
self and his country"
Can Be Whipped, However.
;. Despite this victory or death
spirit among the japanese, despite
their formidable equipment. theil
years of practical experience in war
fare and their spectacular successes
The japanese Empire is by no means
tnvulnerable. 1t has Its weak points
too, Mr.. Grew said.
= Chief among these are the con
tinued existence of strong Alice
positions on the hanks of the far
dung fringe of japanese outposts II
the Pacific and the fact that com
munications and transport between
these widely separated position
..must be carried on very largely b.
water"
< Mr.. Grew stressed that "Japal
As not country which can replac
her shipping losses easily, and
may we'll turn out that the stead,
attrition of her shipping, both mer
camille and naval, may play con
siderable part IL. her ultimate de
feat"
He made 40 prediction how man
years might be necessary to achiev
that ultimate defeat but empha
sized that it could be brought abou
only "by determined aggressive &C
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