Bestial Enemy

Do Not Under-estimate the Japanese

AMERICAN public opinion now is being trained to appreciate the real character of the task of defeating the Japanese in the Pacific. For example, Mr. Joseph Grew, formerly United States Ambassador in Japan, has been making statements like this: “The Japanese won’t crack, either morally, psychologically or commercially, even when eventual defeat stares them in the face. They can be defeated only by utter exhaustion of men and mater ials. That’s the difference between the Japanese and the Germans.”

Similarly, Lieut.-Colonel Warsen Clear, of the United States General Staff Corps, who spent four years as official observer with the Japanese Army, warns in the semi-official “Infantry Journal” that the Japanese are capable of feats which the Germans find impossible.

“Their bestial savagery is the product of centuries of internecine warfare . . .

Their idea of making obeisance to their rifles is something we had better reckon with soberly.”