“7/8/45: Pacific Fleet Headquarters has just announced that three British aircraft carriers were hit by kamikazes. The Russians are still in complete control of Berlin. Spot advertising It’s a Promise from Admiral, a free, full-color booklet showing Admiral’s post-war line of radios, phonographs and appliances. This is the first week that American occupation troops are serving in Berlin. The city has been divided into 4 zones with British, Russian, U.S. and French troops each governing a zone. The Big 3 (Churchill-Truman-Stalin) will meet at Potsdam. [The Potsdam meeting took place between July 17th and August 2nd.] SW from London: there is a rumor that President Truman might visit London after the Postdam Conference. Recorded interview with CBS newsman Webley Edwards who flew on a combat mission over Korea. The Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) will be broken up next weekend. [This occurred on Sunday, July 15th.] Tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin discussing the United Nations Charter and whether or not the U.S. should become a member. A vote is expected in early August. Due to some “confusion” in Berlin, food and fuel for the American and British zones are not being provided by the Russians. Spot for the Admiral post-war record changer “with only 3 moving parts.” PSA advising listeners not to pay black market prices for meat during the current shortage.“
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Funny how the west did not want to introduce their political views on Germany but the Soviets wanted to and did.
We were suckers then and are suckers now.