In London. Ernest Bevin, the British foreign secretary, condemns
Soviet policy in eastern Europe as one kind of totalitarianism
replaced by another.
In Norway. In Oslo, the trial of Vidkun Quisling begins. The
former ruler of German occupied Norway proclaimed his innocence
after listening to a 14 page indictment accusing him of high
treason, murder and theft of royal property. The prosecution
produced evidence, from captured national social documents,
that Quisling had been in contact with the national social
leadership before the war.
In Poland. Anti-Semitic riots break out in Cracow.
In China. Communist and Nationalist troops clash in the north.
In Manchuria, the Soviet forces occupies Mukden and Harbin.
An American volunteer team rescues a number of high ranking
Allied prisoners of war by parachuting into Mukden, in Manchuria,
shortly before the arrival of Soviet ground forces. Among
the prisoners of war are Lieutenant General . Jonathan Wainwright,
who led the American last stand on Corregidor in the Philippines
in 1942, Lieutenant General 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.
In Japan. The Japanese delegation meeting Allied representatives
in Manila, returns with the Allied dispositions for the occupation
and for the signature of the surrender.
In the United States of America. The War Production Board
removes most of its controls over manufacturing activity.
These and many other measures help the United States economy
to convert quickly to a peacetime basis. The American economy
is actually stronger and more productive now, than before
the war, and the standard of living, unlike that of any of
the other major participants in the war, has actually increased.
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