| In Occupied Germany... The Potsdam Conference continues. Churchill, Truman and Stalin confer on politics and strategy, in a town near Berlin.
Truman says that the Allies are making no territorial claims, wanting
only peace, prosperity and "man's greatest age." Meanwhile, a
flag which will fly over Tokyo when Japan is defeated was hoisted in
Berlin today in the presence of President Truman.
In Brussels... The Belgian premier, Achille Acker, tells King
Leopold III that he should abdicate because of his "grave and
unpardonable mistakes."
In Washington... Congress votes to increase the lending ceiling of the Export-Import Bank from $700 million to $3.5 billion. The United States Senate passes the Bretton Woods Bill by a vote of 61 to
16. In the Philippines... American forces land on Balut Island,
at the entrance to Sarangani Bay of Mindanao. The small Japanese
garrison is eliminated. Over Japan... About 80 P-51 Mustang
fighters, flying from Iwo Jima, strike targets in central Honshu. Over
China... For the second consecutive day, more than 200 Allied
bombers, flying from Okinawa, attack Japanese airfields in the area of
Shanghai. |
