JOSEPH C. GREW
(Joseph Clark Grew)
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Joseph Clark Grew was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan between 1932–1941, and as a high official in the State Department in Washington between 1944–1945, where he opposed hardliners, sought to avoid war, and sought a soft Japanese surrender in 1945 that enabled a peaceful American occupation of Japan after the war.
