Two Years & Forever?

In the Pacific, General Joseph W. (“Vinegar Joe”) Stilwell said: “A lot of people have the idea that this is a pushover. … It will take a long time—easily two years.”

In San Gabriel, Calif., before a group of Sunday-school children, General George S. Patton said: “In my opinion there will be another war because there have always been wars. . . . You are the soldiers, sailors and nurses of the next war if we don’t stop wars.”