European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                But equally to san Francisco came delegates from 46 nations Bent on creating a world Security organization that was to enforce Justice among nations and redeem the sacrifices of the the conference itself had been heralded weeks in but the question of whether or not it would result in agreement was uppermost in millions of Success would not necessarily guarantee the peace of the world for All but failure would almost certainly be the first step toward a third world and for a time it seemed touch and would russian position on Poland upset the Apple cart would the admission of Argentina open the Way to a renewed lease of life for fascism would the Small states rebel at a concentration of Power in the hands of the three could a sound peace rest on a basis of Power All these and the rumours that accompanied contributed to the jitters of a while the Earnest delegates successfully struggled through political mists thicker than the fogs that rolled in from san Francisco word came from Milan that the first of the Benito modern founder of and Chest Humper been along with his Clara men and women everywhere took the death of presi Dent on april As a deep personal loss by Robert Bendiner yank staff writer never before to take off on Winston Church ills famous so much history affecting so Many people been made in so Short a in the 125 Days starting with april 12 of this year no fewer than 10 world rocking headlines were splashed across the newspapers of the any one of them explosive enough to furnish the average human being with his excitement quota for a raining Down in breathless these news bombshells found their target in a Public nervous system which should logically be so frayed by this time that it will be fit to take nothing stronger than accounts of tiddlywinks tournaments for at least a year to it is hard to believe that the first of these four alarm stories broke on a stunned world Only four months on the 12th of april at in the Little White House at warm president Franklin Delano Roose velt papers from one end of the country to the other broke out with the 260and 300 Point Woodblock Heads reserved for moments of commercials vanished from the air which for 24 hours echoed almost exclusively to solemn tributes and words of mourn men and women everywhere took the death of the president As a deep personal loss but be Neath this profound emotion ran equally taxing Strong current of excitement Over possible political the feverish speculation that naturally accompanied the first presidential shift in More than 12 less than two weeks after this emotional out pouring came a Story less less dragged through the Gutter and Strung up by the heels from the girder of a Gas Public figures had been assassinated but Here was a melodrama of revenge More startling than the Boodan Thunder of the most farfetched spy that was april for the last time mus Solini was showing the Way to his colleague in within three Days came the startling announcement from Hamburg that Adolf had ceased to Dishonour the planet with his that he had died at his Post in the ruins of it took a while for the news to sink in that the Man who had plunged the world into the greatest misery it had known in Cen who had made fanatic cruelty the Law of a who had conquered nearly the entire continent of Europe and spread his Poison to All parts of the at last dead and done but melodrama crept in and made a big news Story doubly intriguing nobody could be quite sure that Hitler really iwas and the groundwork was Laid for the mystery of the hitlers reported end was the natural prelude to an even bigger collapse of Ger the nazi state that was to endure for a thousand years and make slaves of All the lesser people of the that Story broke May when morning radio pro Grams in the East californians were still asleep were interrupted for a Flash report that the allies had officially announced the unconditional sur Render of Germany in they didst get around to doing until the next even though Victory could have been seen approaching at a Gallop for weeks before it the news was a celebrations were but on All sides they were tempered by words of warning there was still Japan to and that might be a costly and bloody Busi six months to a said the a year and a half to two countered the gradually the excitement died june for these feverish comparatively there of the rounding up of the once proud leaders of the master the stepping up of the War in the including the great Victory at and the successful Windup of the san Francisco con but the next really big 6 on our did not break until july on that Day the British were Able to in the unruffled Way that characterizes their country that they had just experienced the biggest elec toral upset in their by a two Toone count they had voted Winston one of the greatest War leaders of British out of office in order to install a government that had pledged itself to nation Alize whole sections of the country Economy and pus i toward the goal of not since that Remote period before Hitler had embarked on his first even before Mussolini had pitted his legions against the had Britain had a National the result was a whatever its Long Range the elections immediate consequence was the Sec Ond substitution in the cast of the big at on the outskirts of the seventh of our Heady headlines was in the what Churchill and Stalin had started Long ago was carried to completion by marshal president Truman and Britain new prime Clement on August after sessions of the strictest the Fate of Germany and much of Europe was announced decision to make Germany a third rate Industrial incapable of waging stripped of East Prussia and of Large areas along the and denied Central government for an indefinite equally sensational was the ultimatum issued from Potsdam to the japanese terms were Laid and for the first time the enemy had a Concrete picture of what it could expect in the event of unconditional sur failure to it was pointed out by the British and chinese would mean the utter destruction of that was Only a starter for the month of a which was to bring the wave of history to a towering before August was half Over three of the biggest news stories of the one of the biggest in the history of the world had broken on a Public almost immune to eight Cluj in Streamer Heads and Flash interruptions of the morning soap on August a Date that will probably be memorized by schoolboys for the world of the future was ushered the Power of the the Basic Energy of the had at last been harnessed to the uses of its first employment was to blow 60 percent of the japanese City of Hiroshima completely out of the tiny atom promised a speedy end of the More important in the Long it marked out alternative roads for men of the 20th Century to follow the suicide of our civilization through atomic or the Sal vation of that civilization through peaceful application of this monumental scientific people were still rubbing their eyes and trying to stretch their minds enough tar take in the Over whelming significance of the atomic bomb when Story 9 crashed three months from the Date of the German surrender the soviet Union entered the War in the Long poised on the Borders of the red army of the East plunged across the line from East and and americans rejoiced that the japs crack Kwangung army could be left to the russians while our own forces concentrated on the enemy jittery Home it seemed impossible for the War to go on for More than a matter of but the Public was hardly prepared for the swiftness of the japanese Early on the morning of a gust 10 the enemy threw in the sponge by Way of the japanese news came word that the Tokyo government was prepared to accept the Potsdam terms provided the sovereignty of the emperor was left four Days of uncertainty Days of feverish consultation in High places and tentative jubilation in places both High and one thing was cer Tain the end of the second world War was in the Day longed for by an entire world through six tortured years was about to in four Short months this planet had come a Long three figures who had dominated the news of a decade were Musso Lini and a Winston had passed from leadership of an pm Pitk to leadership of his majesty Loyal nazi Germany had been ground into the dust and its ruthless leaders either driven to suicide or brought to the prisoners the foundations for a durable world Security organization had been and the outlines drawn for a reconstructed a labor government had swept into Power in with possible repercussions in All the liberated countries of the and the most widespread and devas Tating War in history was brought to an end with the capitulation of those japanese Jingo who had threatened to fight if necessary for a Hundred towering above even these massive a revolution had taken place in which promised in time either to make the mighty atom work for Man or to destroy Man and his world in another after a Streak like that it would not be sur prising if a revulsion against big news should set it May Well be that people Long to pick up a paper in which nothing More cosmic is re ported than the cites reception of a visiting and nothing More violent than a tie up the Magnolia Avenue trolley on the other big news is a potent on the Day Between russian entry into the Pacific War and the japs bid for peace More than one american was heard to complain that things were nothing for such jaded addicts nothing will do now but an extra with the eight column Streamer Moon collides with Earth As martians it is that equally exciting head All gis discharged As army scraps red but lets not be