Joseph Grew

Joseph C. Grew

Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945. He opposed American hardliners, sought to avoid war, and helped to ensure the soft Japanese surrender in 1945 that enabled a peaceful American occupation of Japan after the war.

Quotes

  • Once Japan is destroyed as an aggressive force, we know of no other challenging power that can appear in the Pacific. ... Japan is the one enemy, and the only enemy, of the peaceful peoples whose shores overlook the Pacific Ocean.
    • Address for United China Relief, Carnegie Hall, NYC (October 10, 1942); in The Department of State Bulletin (October 10, 1942), p. 798. See also Report from Tokyo (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1942) sec. 9, p. 69
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