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Now, here's Robert Trot. It was exactly 192 weeks ago that the American people learned that war had come to the United States. At 2.30 Eastern wartime on that Sunday afternoon of December 7, 1941, the news came.

The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor. And now it's 2.30 in the afternoon of a different Sunday, three years and eight months later. Almost four years of work and struggle of grief and failure and later success.

four years, and for all our principal allies, the ordeal has been longer still. The days that followed the news of that other Sunday were black and filled with peril. Perhaps the decision of victory or defeat was closer than many Americans yet realized.

But it's been a long time now since the cause of the United Nations was desperate and the days were black. The recent months have been crowded with brilliant success, as well as with pain for many.

The days that are to follow this Sunday, so different from that other December afternoon, represent the great opportunity which was bought at so high a price. Whether Sunday, August the 12th, 1945, is to be written into the records as the day the Second World War ended, we do not yet know.

All the world outside Japan still waits to learn the enemy's decision. The suspense is caused not by doubt of the answer which the Japanese must almost certainly but by the uncertainty of the time and the method which the Japanese will choose to announce their final renunciation of the evil ambition which has led the world