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on them the Lowell Mellett.
: other is that we prove to the Japa-
nese that they can have no more
success in their attempt to divide
: their enemies than the Germans
had.
e This discounts the theory that
, japanese fanaticism viii carry that
country into national suicide, into
the obliteration of the Japanese
people Japan, in my opinion, Will
surrender, will not commit hara-
kiri when that appears to be the
Z. only alternative. She will give ur
the territory she has taken by con-
quest during the present century
and will accept life on her home
o.. islands under any restrictions the
Allies may impose.
And. no doubt, dream of another
day when she may again attempt
to become great.
Young as Modern State.
It must be remembered that
Japan, as a modern state, is sc
Young that there are men now llV-
ing who saw its beginning, though
doubtless none of them was actually
. down at the dock when Commodore
20 Perry arrived on the mission that
opened Japan to the Western World
Having in so short a time grown
strong enough to challenge the
world, there will be many japanese
disposed to think they can do 1t
again. They will accept their de-
feat and take up the patient plan
ming of bigger effort next time.
It will be the business of the in
ternational security organization
now being formed to see that this
dreaming comes to nothing.
Japan will try to make peace when
she sees America and Britain still
operating full speed on war basis;
when her diplomats, as they find
their way home, report on the mag
nitude and destructive power of the
Allied air forces; when she contem-
plates the arrival of fighting fleets
that renoer her own naval power in
significant and the coming of armies
that outmatch her own even in num-
bers. armies led by such men as
Bradley and Montgomery and Pat
ton, experienced in the handling of
immense forces; when she thinks OF
Macarthur and Nimitz with limit
less men and materiel at their COM
mand; when she faces the fact that
EiSenhoWer'S talents are turned in
her direction and that the combined
chiefs of staff, not yet guilty of a
single serious error, now have full
time to devote to the Pacific war.
Convinced that We mean business
that the war WEAKNESS on which she
counted has not developed-or that
our WEAKNESS of war has resulted
only in cold determination to abol-
ish the makers of war-Japan will
quit and will quit on our terms, I'M
conditional surrender.
Could Change Tune.
For Japan can quit. Germany, the
then existing German government,
apparently could not and the Ger
man people had no way of providing
themselves with different govern
ment, assuming they may have
wished to do So The German gov
eminent was a dozen years of Hitler
and half dozen days OF Doenitz-
a half-dozen days in which to tell
his people the war was over. The
japanese government, on the other
hand, has changed with every re-
curing crisis in her disastrous i'm
perialistic adventure. A new gov
r eminent tomorrow would be accepted
as a matter of course and though
1t might begin by mounting defiance
as did DOenitz, it could switch the
tune to "Kamerad" just as quickly
But, it is said, Japan will not per-
NIT herself to lose face" Japan, in
fact, has lost face over and ovel
again in her relations with western
countries, has continually accepted
humiliationS such as our own eX-
cusion law, has carried on with out
ward courtesy and looked to the flu
ture. Japan will sacrifice her face tc