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...noon on Monday almost every man, woman and child in the U.S. was sure the war in Europe was over. But most felt that they had already lived through a sort of V-E week, and across the great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering. In Des Moines a housewife telephoned a newspaper: "Shall I go ahead and bake a pie for tomorrow?" In Emporia, Kans., as in most of the nation's towns and villages, it was another Monday and another washday. But on this Monday, Emporia got the news that four more...
...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...
Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win it and get home sooner...
...busy week (69 appointments), but he left the White House each afternoon at 5:30 for his walk across the street to his temporary home in Blair House. (Newsmen stayed late at the White House every night but one, bedding down on the couches and chairs, waiting for a V-E day flash...
...news from the White House was the President's pronouncement on the partial reconversion which will follow V-E day. Without waiting for V-E day, Harry Truman...