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Then Eisenhower spoke lie was Eigning and heard Jodi's plea 'brief and terse as always After he had signed the four in-1 His voice was cold and elem struments of surrender and afteriflis steel blue eyes were hard the military representatives of the! In a few clipped sentences he four powers had signed them JodCmade it plain that Germany was ia defeated nation and that hence- for permission to speak He was told he might 'forth orders to the German people He held himself stiffly erect come from the Allies He forming to the traditions of they would be obeyed sian military correctness Ills voice Then the Germans filed out It was low and soft and he said: was over "With this signature the German! Nazi Germany has ceased to people and armed forces are forlexist better or worse delivered into the The war had ended victors' hands 1 The signatures of the document "In this war which has lasted of surrender climaxed two days of more than five years both in the cathedral city achieved and suffered more than seene of mans' dramatic events in perhaps any other people in the history Possibly what world In this hour I can only ex- as born here today will be known press the hope that the victor the "Peace of Reims" treat generously with them" The (loom of the Third Reich No Response was sealed in the war room of the iAllied supreme command's AA- His face was expressionless and REIM faced Pri ing the pleaded van beh casualtlei He was chief of sti He was red school General vaneed wooden tal lay four which he nature There United Sta Itossia Ea by Prime blanea: Seveni eluding Ed' sociated Pr Eigning an( After he struments the militar: four power for He was ti He held I forming to sian milital was low an "With th people and better or vi victors' har -In this more than chleved a perhaps or world In press the treat gcner His face to4 Lt Gen Smith chief of staff SIIAEFCapt Butcher SHAEF naval aide General Eisenhower Ski- Arthur Tedder deputy supreme commander Adm Sir Harold Burrough 'Allied naval chief (AP ALL SMILES Conquerors Allied officers at Reims France smile after German surrender is signed Left to right General of Artillery Ivan Susloparoff Russia Lt Gen-Sir Staff- SHAFI Itmi 11-1 tkIt LONDON May 8 (JP) President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill Tuesday proclaimed complete victory in Europe Hostilities formally cease at 5:01 Tuesday supreme headquarters announced Shattered Germany's unconditional surrender "will be ratified and confirmed at Berlin" Tuesday Churchill said Both leaders summoned their nations to a battle to the finish against Japan Churchill reminded that "Japan with all her treachery and greed remains unsubdued" and Truman asserted that "when the last Japanese division has surrendered unconditionally only then will our fighting job be done" No Stalin Proclamation There was no immediate proclamation from Premier Stalin Supreme Allied headquarters in a special communique said "Allied expeditionary forces have been ordered to ceaTe offensive operations but will maintain their present position until the surrender becomes effective" Germany's unconditional capitulation to the western Allies and Russia was signed at 2:41 a French time Monday (8:41 rn Sunday) this communique announced Supreme headquarters announced the Germans agreed to: Order all resistance halted Yield all ships and aircraft unscuttled and undamaged Insure compliance with all further orders from the Allied supreme commander and the Soviet high command No Restrictions The surrender document specified that nothing it contained limited or restricted any terms which might later be imposed on the Reich "In the event of the German high command or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this act of surrender" it warned "the supreme commander and the Soviet high command will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate" Thus was effected the uncompromising dictate of unconditional surrender laid down by Churchill and the late President Roosevelt at Casablanca To Be Ratified in Berlin "Today" said Churchill "this agreement will be ratified and confirmed at Berlin where Air Chief Marshal (Sir Arthur) Tedder deputy supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary force and General (Jean de Lattre de) Tassigny will sign on behilf of General Eisenhower General Zhukov (First White Russian Army commander) will sign on behalf of the Soviet high command The German representatives will be Field Marshal Keitel chief of the high command and commanders in chief of the German army navy and air forces" Allied radios ordered all German and German-controlled ships into the nearest ports Grand Adm Karl Doenitz told the German people that all arms would be laid down at 11 German time (6 EWT) President Truman in Washington announcing "a solemn but a glorious hour" set next Sunday as a day of thanksgiving but reminded "our blows will continue until the Japanest lay down their arms in unconditional surrender" French hear De Gaulle General De Gaulle told the French people "the war is won" and the "victory of the Allied Nations is the victory of France" Supreme headquarters dispatches made it clear the surrender was to all the Allies but the Moscow radio was silent even after Truman and Churchill had spoken There had Turn to Victory on Page I Prime ictorY in CWT "will be 11 said Le to the an with and Truhas surg job be Premier munique to ceaTe position rn Allies Monday nounced greed to: naged le Allied it con-later be ly of the rice with rim a nder nitive or unconte ratified (Sir Arllied exrassigny Zhukov behalf ntatives and and and air )ntrolIed nitz told vn at 11 I solemn JapaII war is victory the suras silent iere 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President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill met in Casablanca There they pronounced the formula of unconditional surrender for the Axis powers In Europe that formula has now been fulfilled The Allied force which invaded Europe on June 6 1944 has with its great Russian allies and the forces advancing from the south utterly defeated the Germans on land sea and air This unconditional surrender has been achieved by teamwork teamwork not only among all the Allies participating but among all the services land sea and air "To every subordinate that has been in this command of almost 5000000 Allies I owe a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid The only repayment that can be made to them is the deep appreciation and lasting gratitude of all the free citizens of all the United Nations" were the faces of the Aincricanlvanced headquarters in the big Ibrick British Russian and French gener Ecole Professionelle which als who represented the Allies lin peacetime was a co-educational All had seen German murde industrial school camps and all knew the furious crud The signatories sat at a wooden elty of German occupying forces 4table 20 feet long and 10 feet wide Jodi finished speaking and sat iwith its top painted black The down The sound of his voice wasiwar room itself is L-shaped about ouickly absorbed by the beaver-130 feet long and 30 wide on the board covering the room's walls louter sides of the A moment passed in dead silence At Surrender Table and then the German representa- Its walls are nile green beaver- 'board covered with battle maps their red lines marking what were INDEX the fronts and etching the plight of the Wehrmacht which once had almost the entire Continent under Comics-Crossword 20 its heel Editorial Page 14i Also seated with the signatories Financial-Oil 21 were Maj Gen Sir Frederick Radio-Theaters Morgan SIIAEF deputy chief of Society 17 staff Capt Harry Butcher Sports 19 Eisenhower's naval aid Adm Sir omans Plge 16 Turn to Mercy on Page 10 so were tht British Hu us VA ho rer All had camps and elty of Geri Jodi fini down The ouickly ab board core: A momer and then Comics-Cro Editorial financial-0 Radio-Thez' Society ALL German officers are glum as Col Gen Gustaf Jodi center German chief of staff signs terms of unconditional surrender Others are Maj Gen Wilhelm Oxenius kit personal aide to Jodi and General Admiral Friedburg commander in chief of German navy (AP Wirephoto) tr-'-- r---- IM im Itm 1 TRUMAN PROCLAMATION TRU won and for its promise to peoples everywhere who join us in the love of freedom it is fitting that we as a nation give thanks to Almighty God who has strengthened us and given us the victory Now therefore I Harry Truman President of the United States of America do hereby appoint Sunday May 13 1943 to be a day of prayer I call upon the people of the United States whatever their faith to unite in offering joyful thanks to God fat the victory we have won and to pray that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed Done at the City of Washington this 8th day of May in the year of our Lord 1945 and Of the independence of the United States of America the 169th HARRY TRUMAN join us ion give id given of the ay May hatever God fat support into the 5 day of eir lives and and be afMay in of the TAN We can repay the debt which we owe to our God to our dead and to our children only by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us If I could give you a single watchword for the coming months that word work work We must work to finish the war Our victory is but half-won The west is free but the east is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese When the last Japanese division has surrendered unconditionally then only will our fighting job be done We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering build an abiding peace a peace rooted in justice and in law We can build such a peace only by hard toilsome painstaking understanding and working with our allies in peace as we have in war The job ahead is no less important no less urgent no lus difficult than the task which now happily is done I call upon every American to stick to his post until the last battle is won Until that day let no man abandon his post or slacken his efforts And now I want to read to you my formal proclamation of this occasion By the President of the United States of America A proclamation The Allied armies through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help have von from Germany a final and unconditional surrender The vestern xvorld has been freed of the evil forces Nv hich for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of freeborn men They have violated their churches destroyed their homes corrupted their children and murdered their loved ones Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples those spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave Much remains to be done The victory won in the west must now be won in the east The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed United the peace loving nations have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far than the Might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and weak The power of our peoples to defend themseives against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific as it has been proved in Europe For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have WASHINGTON May (zP)---Following is the text of President Truman's radio address and proclamation on the surrender of Germany: This is a solemn but a glorious hour I only wish that Franklin Roosevelt had lived to witness this day General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations The flags of freedom fly over all Europe For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band Let us not forget my fellow Americans the sorrow and the heartbreak which today abide in the homes of so many of our neighbors whose most priceless possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty WASJ n'esident surrcnder This Franklin Eisenhow surrender over all For th Provicienc dark days Our re sciousnes5 world of fellow Ar day abid( neighbors dered as 1m I 10-.