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CBS World News Today · July 29, 1945 · 25 min · 4,351 words

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World News Today brought to you by Admiral Corporation, World's largest manufacturer of radio phonographs will automatic record-changers. This program is presented in behalf of Admiral Dealers all over America. By short-wave broadcast, direct from important overseas stations, and leading news centers in our own country, CBS reporters are waiting to bring you first-hand news from the world's political and battlefronts.

Now, here's Robert Crock. Within the hour, Columbia's chief of European correspondents Edward R. Murrow reported from London his belief that one of the principal negotiators at Potsdam has stated that his country will go to war with Japan and soon. Mr. Murrow, speaking from London, did not mention specifically the name of the Big Three Nation, whose status of neutrality with Japan, he

reports is now rapidly drawing to a close, but even the Japanese must know perfectly well which nation it is. President Truman went to church this Sunday morning in Potsdam, joined Prime Minister Atley and Marshall Stalin in the business meeting. The negotiators issued another official statement which simply says, the work is progressing satisfactorily and

correspondence report that the conference is now approaching an end and it may be all over within two or three days. In the Pacific, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Ebert, has announced that Australia was not made a party to the Pot Stamm Surrender Ultimatum directed at Japan three days ago and Australia does not subscribe to the terms

which, Dr. Ettet, says, are much more lenient than those imposed on Germany. The Tokyo radio announces that Allied bombers and fighters are attacking the Kure naval base on Hanshu Island again today. No Allied confirmation yet, but Admiral Nimitz reports damage to 15 more Japanese vessels, nine of them warships, yesterday on Japan's inland sea,

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