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...Cliffe, Dr. Eckstein (TIME, March 29) and all the other advocates of peace through brotherly love must face this fact: defeating the Japanese will "endlessly poison the relationships between our countries...
Another gentleman, to whom Eckstein remarked that a man who had committed hara-kiri was, after all, dead, quickly replied: "No, that's where his life begins...
...Eckstein first saw Japan on the day the American Exclusion Act went into effect. He spent his first night with a Japanese family in the home of a surgeon. The surgeon's Western education had not altered the decorum, the grace, the rigid loveliness of his family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine...
...Eckstein recommends that the biggest possible soldiers be sent against the Japanese, in the most impressive possible mass. He warns against trying to use small men subtly, in the enemy's manner. He thinks that the talents born of Japanese smallness might be paralyzed by pure size and shock. But if Americans tried to beat them at their own game they would not only fail; they would also intensify Japanese scorn. On the whole, however, Eckstein is content to leave the winning of the war to warriors...
...form of government "for which they have no instinct, no wish, and no preparation. . . . The peace must be thoughtful, the conditions wise, and Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little. Yet it is in these masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish...