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...that he was the kisser--but that the photo was "a journalistic deception," posed and taken on V-E day, May 8, 1945, not V-J day, Aug. 14, 1945, when dress whites would have been the uniform. Now a security guard, Reynolds, 75, says he previously kept quiet out of deference to his recently deceased wife of 51 years, Mary Ann. But Reynolds' belief is wrong. LIFE says Eisenstaedt was not working on V-E day; it also has the same scene at a different angle by another photographer--on V-J day. Shain backs the claim to spontaneity...
...debated the future of the world at the Harvard Council for Post-War Problems, followed the war in the Pacific, rejoiced at the D-Day landings, mourned President Roosevelt's death and celebrated V-E Day in Harvard Yard. When the atom bomb dropped, we did not agonize over its use, because it had brought us peace...
...electrical engineer, he worked as a factory administrator for 25 years. In the early 1970s he rose through the ranks in several economic agencies and headed the Ministry of the Electronics Industry before becoming mayor of Shanghai in 1985 and party chief in 1989. Last May he attended V-E day ceremonies with 50 other world leaders in Moscow and in July enjoyed a state visit to Germany. On such occasions he is an enthusiastic guest, smiling, shaking hands, chatting in one of his three foreign languages (Russian, Romanian and English), reciting T'ang-dynasty poetry and even quoting lines...
Prager's memoirs provided a refreshing contrast to the flags, fanfares and festivities commemorating V-E day that we in Britain were subjected to. It is well known that the British are not particularly Euro-friendly, but if the British adult population wishes to partake in and build Europe for my generation, then surely the time for anti-German propaganda, abundant during the past few weeks, is over. Realistically, our German counterparts cannot enjoy watching Britain relive her glory in the face of so much German suffering, shame and sorrow. Victory in today's Europe is what is important...
...have commemorated the end of World War II in Europe [V-E DAY, May 8], a war in which, only 50 years ago, unspeakable atrocities occurred, brought about by one crazy right-wing extremist. Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...