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...lines dissolved: 138 Republicans joined with 205 Democrats (and two minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345-to-18. (The dissenters were all G.O.P. bitter-enders.) The overwhelming vote was due to: 1) educational spadework by the Treasury Department; 2) sure-footed maneuvering by Speaker Sam Rayburn; 3) sober second thoughts by Republican House leaders. The nonpartisan character of the vote prompted a happy comment from President Truman: Congress would really be ready for the peace treaty...
...second, sober look, newsmen (and censors) decided that the clarification needed clarifying. Next day SHAEF explained : continued censorship on "matters of high military importance" was not as forbidding as it sounded. Only major item now banned under this clause: interviews with Nazi bigwigs, while evidence is being gathered for their trials. Otherwise, almost anything goes. SHAEF-accredited correspondents will even be admitted to the war crime trials. Skeptical newsmen, hardened by SHAEF's creaky, on-again-off-again press machinery, decided to keep their fingers crossed for a while...
...Manhattan, the most effervescent U.S. city, the carnival sights and sounds bubbled spontaneously, then subsided, then fizzed again. For a while on Monday, torn paper and ticker tape by the ton fluttered from skyscrapers, and the streets turned white. Half a million people clotted Times Square, sober and undemonstrative, waiting for somebody to start the fun. Nobody...
...undertone was sober and reflective. New York's tabloid Daily News caught the feeling: instead of an editorial for V-E day it printed the Te Deum Laudamus. Most of the advertisements in Manhattan's press were expressions of thanksgiving. The churches were crowded early...
Amid this enthusiastic bustle last week was a sober note. Said WPB Chief of Operations Hiland G. Batcheller: the switch to a one-front war should involve little loss in employment or income. But after V-J day business will be on its own, and this is when the real test will come...