General buckner becomes the highest a american general in the war to die in combat when he's killed in an artillery attack. The brand new American president, still on the job for less than two months at this point, gives a speech to the news media. There can be no peace in the world until the military power of japan is destroyed with the same completeness as was the power of the european dictators to do that. If the japanese insist on continuing resistance beyond the point of reason, their country will suffer the same destruction as germany. Our blows will destroy their whole modern industrial plant and organization which they have built up during the past century. We have