For Keeps

"We must pull ourselves up short. We must stop groping. Let us make no mistake. This is the real thing, played for keeps. The Germans cracked in 1918. . . . They will crack again. The Japanese will not crack. Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion can they be defeated. That is what we are up against. Too long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. If you fail--please mark my words--you pass into slavery and all America passes into slavery with you."--Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from Feb. 1932 to Dec. 7, 1941.

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