. The great Pacific war. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942.

The Japanese are men who are not afraid to die and who are skilled and competent on land, but particularly on the sea and in the air. Like the Germans, they are professionals in the study of war; the democracies, devoted to the develop-ment of freedom, are as yet amateurs. The Japanese - and the Germans can be met and mastered, therefore, only by men who are as "tough" in body and spirit as they are, men who must become in the midst of war professionals in the art of war. A vein of steel lies deep in the bedrock of the Ameri-can character. We are engaged in a struggle for whatever is precious, whatever is fine that life may hold for us, a struggle for life itself. The hard steel of American manhood must be freed of the silt and dross of the years: build our structure of victory upon such bedrock as this and we cannot fail.