
Fall of Japan
August 20, 1945
Cover Story Excerpt:
The greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous eventan event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished....Read the full story
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