Gardening Section *
Outlook for Lilies (by Alan MacNeil, first-time contributor) – 13
Blooms for Fall (by Florence Moog, first-time contributor) – 14
Around the Garden (by Dorothy H. Jenkins, first-time contributor) – 14
Pruning Flowering Espaliers – 15
The News of the Week in Review
The Commander and the Emperor (photo) – 17
From War to Peace – 18
Japan’s Fate – 18-20
Fifteen News Questions – 20
Milestones in the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (map) – 21
Power in the Pacific is Now in Our Hands (by James B. Reston) – 22
Chungking Makes Deal with Russia (by Brooks Atkinson) – 23
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 23
“Directive is To Be Complied With Without Delay” (cartoon) – 23
* I haven’t posted gardening news before but I have scrolled past it in every Sunday edition since 1938. I figure we have a few 21st century gardeners among us that might be interested in how they used to do it. Don’t forget to stock up on that DDT stuff. It seems to be a wonder-chemical for gardeners – HJS.
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/7/19.htm
August 19th, 1945 (SUNDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: King George and Queen Elizabeth lead nationwide thanksgiving services to mark Victory Sunday.
U.S.S.R.: Pacific Fleet ship loss - MMS “KT-152” (ex-”Neptun”) - by aviation at Shumshu Is. area. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
MANCHURIA: Mukden: High-ranking Allied PoWs including Lt-Gen Jonathan Wainwright, who led the American’s last stand on Corregidor in the Philippines in 1942, have been found safe and well in a small PoW camp 100 miles from Mukden in Manchuria. They were rescued by a volunteer team of US doctors which parachuted into the area shortly before it fell under Russian control. Also among the 34 freed PoWs are Lt-Gen Arthur Percival, commander of the Singapore garrison at its surrender in 1942, and the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, Mr van Starkenborch Stachouwer.
FAR EAST: Two B-25Js of the US Far East Air Force’s 345th Bombardment Group (Medium) intercept 2 IJN G4M “Betty” bombers north of Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands. The Japanese aircraft carry a delegation from Tokyo enroute to Manila, Philippine Islands, to meet General MacArthur’s staff to work out details of the surrender. The G4Ms are painted all white with green crosses on the wings, fuselage and vertical tail surface and use the call signs “Bataan I” and “Bataan II.” The Japanese land on Ie Shima and transfer to USAAF C-54 Skymasters for the flight to Manila. On the return flight from Ie Shima to Japan, the Japanese aircraft run out of fuel and ditch in Tokyo Bay but the delegation is rescued and completes the mission.
Pictures of the delegation and Envoy
PACIFIC OCEAN: The formation of fleet Marine and Navy landing forces from officers and men afloat begins; these men are transferred, at sea, to transports for the impending occupation of Yokosuka under Commander, Task Force 31.
FORMOSA: Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian Nationalist leader is killed in an air crash.
CANADA: HMC ML 075 paid off.
USA: The War Production Board removes most of its controls over manufacturing activity.
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If anyone wonders whether the Japanese are stalling on allowing the American occupation of Japan, you need wonder no more.
They are.
They know the Americans have rounded up the Nazi leadership and are collecting evidence from the German records to use in war crimes trials. They also know the Americans have promised war crimes trials for the Japanese leadership.
The Japanese are buying as much time as they can to “sanitize” their internal records. Or they are just dumping files and lighting them on fire. It will allow many Japanese to give recollections of events that cannot be rebutted by the official historical record.
Aerial view of Nagasaki on August 19, 1945 after the explosion of the American atomic bomb.
Getty image. Can’t post on FR.