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...difference, of course, for it meant that the bloodiest war Europe had ever known was finished. "In all our long history, we have never seen a greater day than this," Winston Churchill told the crowds in Parliament Square. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said President Harry Truman. "We join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity...
...before in Washington, at about 5 p.m., Vice President Truman had been summoned to the White House. "Harry," Eleanor Roosevelt said as she greeted him, "the President is dead." Truman found himself unable to speak for a moment. Then he said, "Is there anything I can do for you?" She answered, "Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble...
...Truman could hardly disagree. He felt, he said later that week, "like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me." Within hours of his swearing in, he had to confront secrets and controversies that as Vice President he had never heard of. He learned that U.S. scientists were about to test something known as an atom bomb, that the Allies had already decided how Germany was to be divided up among them, that Joseph Stalin and Churchill were bitterly at odds about who would rule Poland. And he had to address the diplomats assembling...
...floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
...Truman's reaction to Himmler's offer was acerbic. "Has he anything to surrender?" the new President asked Churchill on the transatlantic telephone. The two quickly agreed to tell the Swedish diplomat (and to reassure " the ever suspicious Stalin) that Germany must surrender unconditionally to all the Allies. No more was heard from Himmler. Inside the Berlin bunker, Hitler denounced him as a traitor. He dismissed Himmler from his government positions and expelled him from the Nazi Party...