End of wartime truce and Japan surrender plans amid MacArthur moves
In Manila, Allied leaders report that formal surrender of Japan will occur within ten days as General MacArthur coordinates occupation plans. Tokyo asks for probes into China while emissaries depart Manila. war enters a vital phase with occupation forces, airfields, and a possible Tokyo signing site under discussion.
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Russell Brines
Manila
Japan
MacArthur
Emperor Hirohito
Mikado
Nichols Field
Takashiro Kawabe
Tokyo
Halsey
Hirohito
Richard E. Sutherland
Kawabe
Tapan
MaceArthur
United States
Chinese Republic
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Imperial Japanese
China
Maleva
End Of Manchurian Resistance Nearing End
Dispatches from Moscow report almost all Manchuria in Japanese hands surrender and occupation near. The Kwantung army of about one million soldiers reportedly capitulated garrison by garrison to advancing Soviet forces. Soviet airborne units had landed in Mukden Harbin Hsinking and Kirin as ground forces closed on Mukden and Hsinking.
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London
Manchuria
Japan
Moscow
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Mukden
Harbin
Hsinking
Kirin
Russia
Otero Yamada
Kwantung Army
Kirill A. Merevkovs
Maxim Parkner
Sungari River
Lansing
Longchen
Rodion Y. Malinovaky
Transbaikal
Hsinking Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Manila
Luzon
New Guinea
Solomons
U. S. Army
Ith Corps
Yoshiharu Iwanaka
Masatsugu Araki
Russell Volckman
Clinton
Iowa
Iwanaka
Geki
Second Armored Division
Araki
Tokyo Press Raps Leaders In Unrest Anew
Tokyo editorials condemn leaders who guided Japan into war and urge calm and adherence to Allied peacetime terms. Asahi calls reflection on past blind obedience and a shift in national thought toward hope and reconstruction. Nippon Times notes Emperor Hirohito's instructions signal broader policy debates amid unrest.
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Ated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Nippon Times
Comei
Federal Communications Commission
Centrol
Higeshi-Kuni
Asahi
The
Hirohito
Higashi-Kuni
Truman approves wage increases amid price concerns
AY INCREASES GET APPROVAL ASHINGTON August 20 The government moves to raise salaries for collar workers and others at once while price effects loom. The plan targets those earning $5 000 annually or more, with a commission studying the handover to peacetime rules. A war orders cutback follows as the War Shipping Administration cancels 425000 00 in contracts.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Truman
Hite House
John W
Enor
Max Gardner
Northlina
Secretary of States
War Shipping
Ion
Government Stops 35 Ship Contracts
The Time Commission announced cancellation of 425 million dollars in contracts covering 133 ships and three special military equipment items. The navy accounted for 70 million in cancellations, with 25 cargo ships 42 victory cargo ships 4 liberty ships 8 military type victories 6 river ships and 3 large passenger ships affected.
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Ashington
Time Commission
Britain
le Commission
Truman Allows Time and a Half for War Workers Aug 15 16
President Truman ordered time and a half pay for war workers on August 15 and 16. The order amends a 3 year old rule excluding premium wages on ordinary holidays except a few named days. It confirms V J Day will not be a legal holiday and that it will be proclaimed after Japan signs surrender terms.
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Washington
Truman
Schwellenbach
White House
Japan
Quisling Trial Opens in Oslo With High Nazi Witnesses
The Oslo treason trial of Vidkun Quisling begins as prosecutors name Allied and Norwegian witnesses to testify, including Alfred Rosenberg Wilhelm Keitel and Gustav Joell from Germany. Quisling releases a long defense insisting Hitler was right and Norway seeks indemnification for alleged insults.
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Oslo
Ava
Herman Goering
Joachim von =bentrop
Vidkun Quisling
Norway
Annaeus Schodjt
Germany
Alfred Rosenberg
Wilhelm Keitel
Gustav Joell
Quisling
Tinwelf
Hitler
England
Bolshevier
Bevin Attacks Balkan Governments as Old Dictatorship Remains
Foreign Secretary Bevin told the Commons that Bulgaria Romania and Hungary governments do not reflect the majority and that one form of totalitarianism is replacing another. He warned this contradicts democracy in postwar policy during the first full debate on Labour policy.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Commons Today
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
House
Liberated Wainwright On Way To Chungking
General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Corregidor hero, liberated with other POWs in Manchuria, was en route to Chungking by air and sea with possible move to Manila. Wedemeyer announced a large-scale release plan tied to Allied camp occupation and no discrimination in freeing prisoners and civilian internees.
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Chungking
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Manchuria
North China
Manila
U. S.eadquarters
China
Wainwright
Philippines
Hsian
Mukden
China Theater
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U.S
Gen. MacArthur
A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Netherlands Indies
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Wedemeyer
MacArthur
Japan
Shanghai
Hainan Island
Hong Kong
Peiping
Korea
Formosa
Indo-China
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