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August 25, 1945

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Headlines from August 25, 1945

MACARTHUR SHIFTS; First Landing of Our Occupation Forces in Japan Tuesday ENEMY WILL SIGN SEPT. 2 Three Storms Force Delay in Schedule--Soviet Group Arrives at Manila

By the Associated Press

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Attlee Protests Cancellation as Putting Nation in Dire Straits --Churchill Also Condemns 'Grave and Disquieting' Move; BRITAIN PROTESTS END OF LEND-LEASE Debate Is Avoided Effect "Not Calculated" Assumptions Not Proved

By Herbert L. Matthews By Wireless To the New York Times

Attlee scores lend-lease sudden end, Commons; Commons reaction; order interpretations seen as no substitute; Attlee repts delegation headed by Lords Halifax and Keynes will go to US and urges Commons not to hamper negotiations

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DE GAULLE URGES U.S., FRENCH AMITY; DE GAULLE INTERVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN PRESS.

By Harold Callender Special To the New York Times

de Gaulle and Bidault conf with Truman and Sec of State Byrnes; de Gaulle replies to criticism of press; urges US-French amity; decorations and gifts exchd; Paris official qrs comment on de Gaulle mission; 1 Paris newspaper prints Truman press rebuks; de Gaulle press int illus

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Previous Arrangements; Claim Russian Violations SURRENDER PLANS DEFERRED 2 DAYS Report Airfield Is Muddy Fear Attacks in China Japanese Disarm Troops Storm to Miss Tokyo

By Frank L. Kluckhohn By Wireless To the New York Times

reptd to have ordered cessation of hostilities wherever Jap forces are in direct contact with Allied armies

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ARGENTINA SCORED BY ROCKEFELLER; Regime, Not Populace, Fails to Keep Chapultepec Pledges, Byrnes Aide Says Pledges Declared Violated Argentine Regime Is Denounced By Rockefeller as Breaking Faith Opposition to Regime Cited

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Asst Sec of State Rockefeller says many Axis interest are still untouched

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Notable Births

1945Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (died 2011)^[†]

Daniel Hulet was a Belgian cartoonist.

1945Hannah Louise Shearer, American screenwriter and producer^[†]

Hannah Louise Shearer, also known as Hannah Shearer or Hannah L. Shearer, is a writer who was credited with writing five episodes whilst on the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation and an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She was also a writer and producer for Emergency! and Knight Rider.

Notable Deaths

1945John Birch, American soldier and missionary (born 1918)^[†]

John Morrison Birch was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS field agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary. He was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers during an assignment he was ordered on by the OSS, ten days after the war ended. Birch was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

Historical Events

1945Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.^[†]

Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – 15 August 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, 14 August 1945 – as well as to 2 September 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II.

1945The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.^[†]

Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc (Phước) Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was de jure emperor of Annam and Tonkin, which were then protectorates in French Indochina, covering the present-day central and northern Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932.