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...power in particular seemed all-important to Harry Truman. So far as he could see, the Emperor alone could effectively order the surrender of all the Jap forces still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
...reading, Molotov smiled shyly and peered at the correspondents. The smile seemed to say: "Well, gentlemen?" A correspondent said: "Thank you, Mr. Molotov. Thank you very much." The newsmen then filed their stories and returned to the dreary Hotel Metropole, where the luggage of Jap diplomats and newsmen had already been piled on the stairs. It was 9 p.m. in Moscow, three hours before the beginning of Russia's second war with Japan...
Premier Suzuki's Cabinet took control of the People's Volunteer Corps from the Army and Navy. War Minister Anami ordered his Kwantung troops to fight to the death (Moscow said they were surrendering in droves). A Jap torpedo hit a U.S. warship off Okinawa, and Admiral Nimitz ordered the hovering Third Fleet, silent for two days, back into action (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Sixty-two hours after the first Jap offer the vigil, still continued. Then came the U.P.'s false report of final Jap surrender, and in the two minutes before it was denied a carnival din began. Firecrackers popped in Manhattan's Chinatown; searchlights swept the skies over Miami. Bonfires blazed in Pittsburgh...
...When President Truman reported to the nation, the night before the Jap surrender offer, he had the biggest radio audience he has had since V-E day-41,-500,000 (by Hooper rating). His listeners bent an attentive ear when he talked of the new bomb (see ATOMIC AGE), and when he spoke of the Russian entry into the war having been arranged at Potsdam. But much of what he said was immediately overshadowed by the march of events. Still, there were points for U.S. citizens to ponder...