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On 14 August 1945, after meeting with Truman about midday, a British official visiting with the Duke of Windsor and John Balfour reported that the president had "remarked sadly that he now had no alternative but to order an atomic bomb dropped on Tokyo" .
1 posted on 08/15/2012 3:29:04 AM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925
and after 14 years of war, Japan also released all its Chinese POWs. -There were 56."

Flyboys, pg. 301

2 posted on 08/15/2012 3:45:27 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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