August 10, 1945, Friday
Lt. Hagonberg came this afternoon to say that the radio had announced MacArthur was going to speak about 7 o’clock. He was expected to make… Read More »August 10, 1945, Friday
Lt. Hagonberg came this afternoon to say that the radio had announced MacArthur was going to speak about 7 o’clock. He was expected to make… Read More »August 10, 1945, Friday
Big News. Russia declared war against Japan. This is now practically a war by the whole world against Japan. Taking into consideration the military strength… Read More »August 9, 1945 Thursday
As San Francisco announced that the second “atomic” bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki shortly before noon, the vernaculars started to open up a little… Read More »9th August 1945
Big News. Russia declared war against Japan. This is now practically a war by the whole world against Japan. Taking into consideration the military strength… Read More »August 9, 1945, Thursday
The details of the new bomb are still “under investigation”. One feels that the authorities are just an puzzled and bewildered by the whole thing… Read More »8th August 1945
We learned of the defeat of Premier Churchill of Great Britain by Clement Attlee, a Laborite. Politics is certainly a most ungrateful game. It was… Read More »August 8, 1945, Wednesday
The San Francisco radio announced today that a new “atomic” bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima yesterday the 6th, wiping out 60 per cent of… Read More »7th August 1945
After leading off its Potsdam story two days ago with the observation that the Big Three “failed to produce anything that has direct bearing on… Read More »6th August 1945
We were visited or rather inspected by Lt. Col. Jaime Velasquez and Maj. Hanz Menzi, both of the Police Command. They seem to be ranking… Read More »August 6, 1945, Monday