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Show THE DAY WE'VE ALL BEEN LOOKING FOR Roosevelt Fire Siren Signals Victory. Crowds Dance on Lagoon Street WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 Peace came to the world Tuesday Tues-day night when Pres. Truman announced that Japan has accepted ac-cepted unconditional surrender and that allied forces have been ordered to cease firing. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, "the man who came back" was named supreme allied commander to receive re-ceive the formal Japanese surrender. sur-render. World War II the bloodiest conflict in all human history was at an end, axeept for the formality of signing surrender documents. V-J day will not be proclaimed proclaim-ed until after the instruments of surrender are signed. America's three allies in the Pacific war Great Britian, Russia Rus-sia and China will be represented represent-ed at the signing by high ranking rank-ing officers. Mr. Truman proclaimed, the tidings at 5 p. m. (M W T), shortly short-ly after he received Tokyo's formal for-mal reply to the allied surrender terms. Summoning reporters to his office, he read a statement which said: "I deem' this reply a full acceptance ac-ceptance of the Potsdam declaration dec-laration which specified the unconditional un-conditional surrender of Japan, Jap Reply Without Qualification "In the reply there is no qualification." quali-fication." Tokyo informed Mr. Truman that Emporer Hirohito is prepar ed "to authorize and insure the signature by the Japanese government gov-ernment and the imperial general gener-al headquarters the necessary terms for carrying out the provisions pro-visions of the Potsdam declaration". declara-tion". "His majesty also is prepared to issue his commands to all the military, naval and air authorities authori-ties of Japan and all the forces under their control wherever located lo-cated to cease active operations, to surrender arms and to issue such other orders as may be required re-quired by the supreme commander com-mander of the allied forces of the execution of the above mentioned men-tioned terms." Thus was the "infamy"' of Pearl Harbor fully avenged three years, eight months and seven days after Japanese planes struck a nearly mortal blow against the United States without with-out warning. Japan had paid the full penalty pen-alty for the treachery that plunged plung-ed the United States into a two-front two-front war the costliest in all history. his-tory. In terms of blood and treasure, treas-ure, the great conflict had cost the United States more 'than 1.000,000 casualities and $300,-000.000,000. $300,-000.000,000. The end was announced calm-I calm-I ly by Mr. Truman, who declared a two-day holiday Wednesday and Thursday for all federal employes throughout the nation. |