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Negotiations for other German documents were under way. In cafés and even in prison compounds, discredited diplomats, jobless generals and plain sad sacks talked copyright laws and literary prices. It was still an eighth wonder of the post V-E world that the Chicago Daily News had paid Edda Ciano $75,000 for her late husband's dreary diary...
Broadway and Hollywood have also gone to war-in U.S.O.-Camp Shows uniforms (Army o.d. or khaki). Last week some 250 entertainers invaded Europe, the largest group yet in a great push that began shortly after V-E day. The Army prescribed it as a cure for the G.I. doldrums...
...Argentine Navy treated the U-530's crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...
Last week, as rumors of peace feelers swirled through Washington, Maine's Senator Wallace H. White Jr., never an appeaser, rose to demand that the U.S. redefine "unconditional surrender." President Truman had already attempted it. In a V-E day statement, he proclaimed that unconditional surrender "does not mean the extermination or enslavement of the Japanese people." He said the same thing again in a later report to Congress...
...years planning, hiring a multilingual staff of 250 (about half British), experimenting and entangling itself in red tape. Colonel William Paley, peacetime head of CBS, was called in to set things straight. He negotiated with the BBC for equipment, promised that ABSIE would clear out 90 days after V-E day. Robert Sherwood, then OWI's overseas director, arranged the programs; he said that ABSIE would "join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe - and to our enemies...