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Show I Joseph C. Grew Warns . Half -Effort Will Not Defeat Japan By JOSEPH C. GREW United States Ambassador to Japan until the outbreak of war, and author of "Report From Tokio." (Written for the Treasury Department In connection with the Retailers "SAT YES" campaign to comnlete the nation's lOU.OOO.OOO partially ailed War Stanrfl albums.) a warrior caste which is ruthless and cruel beyond comprehension. From the flood of eye witness accounts ac-counts of atrocity and bestiality one r s s. ' i h 3 I l . . ' ' " fj r , i 4 l t ' ' ' I v. ...i ,J ally we can continue to lead our nor- ; mal lives, leaving the spirit of self- j sacrifice to our soldiers and sailors, j we shall unquestionably run the risk j of a stalemate with Japan. I do not j have the slightest doubt of our even- t tual victory. . But I do not wish to t see the period of our blood, sweat and tears indefinitely and unnecessarily unneces-sarily prolonged. We must not fail to realize that we are up against a powerful 'fighting machine, a people whose morale cannot be broken even by successive defeats and untold economic hardship, a people who gladly sacrifice their lives for their Emperor and their nation. We must also remember that Japan did not start this war without carefully laid military plans for victory over the United Slates and a peace dictated by their war lords at the White House. This is a total war, the only answer an-swer to which is a total American victory. It is a war in which half measures of any kind mean incredible incredi-ble waste of material, ' energy and human life. In this sense a half-filled half-filled War Savings Stamp album is symbolic of a half effort. There are, I am told, roughly 100 million partially par-tially complete War Stamp albums now in circulation. These uncompleted uncom-pleted Stamp albums are, in a measure, meas-ure, like a 100 million threats to a ' speedy and victorious peace. On the other hand, for every War Savings Sav-ings album completed and cashed in for a Bond, you the owner have helped some soldier or sailor take a forward step on he uphill road to total victory, u. S. Treasury Department WASHINGTON, D. C In describing de-scribing one of the big air battles over Guadalcanal a recent newspaper account tells of an American Amer-ican flyer who parachuted from his crippled plane to the waters of Lunga Bay. The Navy craft which picked him up next went to the rescue res-cue of a Japanese pilot seen struggling strug-gling in the water nearby. As the rescue boat reached the Japanese i flyer he suddenly pulled out his revolver, re-volver, aimed it at the drenched American pilot and pulled the trigger. trig-ger. The cartridge failed to explode. Then the Japanese officer turned the gun on himself with suicidal intent. Again he pulled the trigger and again his revolver failed him. At this point an American sailor knocked him out with a boat hook i and pulled him aboard the American Ameri-can craft a prisoner. Almost daily one reads eye-witness stories such as this one, and all of them clearly demonstrate that war with our enemy in the Pacific cannot end in compromise. For ten years I lived in Japan. The truth as I know it from close observation is this: Nothing less than the exertion of our maximum capacities, individually and collectively, collec-tively, in a war of offense will bring our beloved country safely to the longed-for haven of victorious peace. The Japanese are pawns of a senseless but mighty militarism JOSEPH C. GREW Says It's Piyht to Finish fact shines clear. We must utterly crush that machine and caste and system. If, however, we Americans think that collectively and-individu- |