Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Joseph Grew
Born: May 27, 1880
Died: May 25, 1965 (aged 84)
Bio: Joseph Clark Grew was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. Early in his career, he was the chargé d'affaires at the American Embassy in Vienna when the Austro-Hungarian Empire severed diplomatic relations with the United States on April 9, 1917.
Known for:
- Ten years in Japan (1944)
- Report from Tokyo (1942)
- Sport and Travel in the Far East (1910)







