Big Three Study Peace Terms and Berlin Plans
Western Newspaper Union analyzes progress as the Big Three study peace terms. Allies prepare homecomings and set routes for Berlin, signaling ongoing wartime diplomacy and postwar arrangements.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1945
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union analyzes progress as the Big Three study peace terms. Allies prepare homecomings and set routes for Berlin, signaling ongoing wartime diplomacy and postwar arrangements.
President Truman arrives in Potsdam for talks with Churchill and Stalin. They plan long range Germany controls, territorial dispositions, Italy peace terms, and other neutral and Japan issues, while Berlin's Allied military governments begin new operations and resource exchanges amid shortages.
Reports from Tokyo and broadcasts warn of possible Allied landings as Japan braces for intensified air raids. U S Navy data show over 17 000 Japanese planes destroyed since Pearl Harbor with about 2 700 American aircraft lost, while Navy carriers approach 100 ships and 1 250 000 tons. More than 26 000 aircraft built since Pearl Harbor were deployed to the fleet last year.
Five weeks after a powerful typhoon battered Admiral Halsey's 3rd Fleet, 21 ships were damaged but most returned to action. The cruiser Pittsburgh survived with its bow torn off and has been refitted. Damaged fast battleships and two Essex carriers were repaired. one life was reported lost. Admiral Nimitz did not specify strike location, but the Western Pacific between Okinawa and the Philippines is cited as the typhoon cradle.
Eight transports docked in New York bringing 35 000 veterans from Europe the largest daily return since V E Day. Americans 28 000 Canadians 7 000 plus infantry regiments hospital unit and 8th Air Force groups among arrivals. Queen Mary carried 15 000 including 6 000 Canadians. West Point navy transport 7 600 soldiers John Ericsson similar numbers James Parker 3 000 and four smaller ships 1 500. Three Japanese diplomats among those aboard West Point and Nat ale Piavallo a nine year old Italian orphan smuggled aboard General Bliss will await migration decisions.
Representative Wood of Georgia was chosen by the House to chair the committee on un American activities succeeding Representative Hart of New Jersey who resigned due to ill health Rankin had been acting chairman since the resignation Wood's election fills the post for the remainder of the term and sets a new leadership line for the committee.
An American naval party found a Japanese hospital ship dirty and vermin overrun with 1,000 patients relocated from Wake Island under truce. Food and medical supplies were inadequate and many appeared to be starving. Doctors warned many would die tonight despite cleaner wards for the sick. The ship's officers were polite and curious about American baseball, even offering tea and liquor.
The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion will become part of the Treasury Department when Fred M. Vinson, current director, becomes secretary. Vinson plans to retain top OWMA personnel and Treasury officials anticipate further consolidation of independent fiscal agencies into the Treasury.
The piece traces radar’s birth in 1930s America from hidden military origins to its wartime impact in World War II. It notes key moments including 1942 battles, Pearl Harbor lessons, and radar’s claim to saving England in the Battle of Britain while predicting future civilian uses in air traffic control and safe landing in poor visibility.
The column notes a French paper girls dislike mail on the first of the month and that a German GI praises a still hopeful home front product. It recalls soybeans once used mainly as chop suey sauce and cites Metropolitan Life finding divorced or widowed people can more easily find new partners than single spinsters or bachelors.
The Unity Press reports that soldiers redeploying from Europe to the Pacific must learn to swim and box, with one team sport added for fitness and morale. Training emphasizes basic strokes, boxing skill, and team games like basketball baseball football and soccer or volleyball. Millions in gear accompany the program and camps will host two week instruction at Washington and Lee University.
FRANKFURT ON MAIN Germany The armed Nazi regime exterminated at least 80 percent of Germanys Jewish population and most Jews in occupied Europe were slated for death by 1946 Russian officials estimate millions perished in concentration camps The Allies report many survivors are returning home while some synagogues reopen in Aachen Cologne and Frankfurt am Main 500 rescued children are housed in Thionville Lorraine and the plan for a Jew free Reich aimed for 1942 but stalled by transport issues
Dublin reports the Eire government turned over keys to the former German legation to the American minister completing the transfer of diplomatic property in the city.
Washington reports the United States Navy has grown to include 100000 new vessels across all categories since December 7 1941 bringing the force close to its 1938 manpower level of 109065. The fleet now comprises 1500 combatant ships 82266 landing craft and 557 auxiliaries with patrol and mine craft and small boats making up the remainder. The navy seeks 10000 new officers annually after the war.
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