Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 26, 1995 TAG: 9507260020
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The U.S. government told Japanese leaders that unconditional surrender offered "the only way by which you can make possible the salvation of Japan." A Japanese-speaking Navy captain, speaking for the U.S. government, told the Japanese that if they surrendered immediately it would be the United States alone that would enforce the terms of surrender.
Recently released State Department papers showed that some American tycoons had backed Hitler in the 1930s as a way of keeping Germany from turning to socialism.
Japans's technological leader admitted that Japan's fleet and air power were unable to deal with Allied forces outside the confines of the Japanese homeland and that the final battle must be fought there. But Lt. Gen.Reikichi Tada said that a new secret weapon would ensure victory in the showdown battle.
Because their targets were getting scarce, the Navy had to wait for three weeks to announce the latest toll of the U.S. Pacific submarine fleet: 11 Japanese ships.
President Truman, Soviet Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill, meeting at Potsdam, were said to be debating ways to prevent Europe from sinking into economic and political chaos in the coming winter.
With more than 300 war dead listed, Henry County suffered heavier casualties among its men and women in the armed forces, in proportion to its population, than any other political division in the state. Of the approximately 7,200 Virginians who died while serving in the armed forces between Pearl Harbor and V-E Day, it was estimated that 2,500 died of natural or accidental causes.
The Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Tigers tied a 39-year-old American League record as they battled five hours through 24 innings to a 1-1 tie.
Henri Philippe Petain, 89-year-old former head of the Vichy government in France, rested as he awaited trial on charges that he betrayed France, which had once honored him as a marshal of her armies. Andre Mornet, who prosecuted the spy Mata Hari in World War I, was prosecuting Petain.
High Nazi leaders, including Field Marshal Albert Kesserling, Admiral Karl Doenitz and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, were made to watch movies of Nazi atrocities at places like the Buchenwald death camp.
In perhaps the greatest mass raid in history, half a million American soldiers searched every house in the American occupation zone in Germany and arrested 80,000 persons, many of them former SS men wanted as war criminals.
Gov. Colgate Darden began a search for a legal means to do away with the handling of poisonous snakes by religious cultists in Southwest Virginia, where members continued with plans for a national convention in Lee County over the weekend. Two deaths had resulted from the practice a year earlier.
American and British carrier planes damaged two Japanese battleships, two aircraft carriers and three cruisers in attacks on Japan's great naval base at Kure.
Britain's Labor Party, advocating a socialist program for national reconstruction, stunningly defeated Prime Minister Winston Churchill's conservative government in elections. King George VI commissioned labor leader Clement Attlee to form a new government.
by CNB