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Now, here's Robert Trump. President Truman is leading the nation and giving thanks for the victory. While Americans all over the country observe the day of prayer, each according to his custom, special services were conducted in the East Room of the White House by the chiefs of chaplains of the Army and Navy, and the congregation of 200 military, government and congressional

leaders prayed for wisdom and strength with which to face the hard tasks of peace. the sea, Great Britain, observed the day of prayer too. The king and queen drove through the city of London to the services at St. Paul's Cathedral, which stands triumphant amid blocks of wreckage and rubble. The Japanese representatives are now in Manila, where they arrived slightly

ahead of schedule after a swift flight in an American plane from E. A. Shema. Sixteen Japanese stepped out of the plane at Nichols Field, although General MacArthur instructed the enemy to send four men, one the representative of the emperor and three advisors. It is not clear just which of the sixteen Japanese is representing the emperor. The party consists

of eight army and air force officers, six naval officers, and two civilians. They have come to meet General MacArthur several days later than he had told them to come. They took off from Japan last night, flying from a different airfield than the one General MacArthur had instructed them to use. So far there has been no report of any meeting between