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They have bowed to defeat but only coldly and calculatingly as you might bow on the street to a business acquaintance whom you don't like and are trying to outwit in a deal. They aren't acting like a defeated nation. They are giving no more than lip service to the Potsdam Altimatum, and they're delaying actual formal surrender with deliberate stalling.

NBC's Merrill Mueller in Manila has picked up this morning a report from the Tokyo radio saying their emissaries will be in Manila Sunday, at their latest. The Japanese say that they can't possibly get all their forces to stop fighting in less than twelve days.

But they send General MacArthur notes calling on him to tell the Russians to stop advancing and fighting when that's the only way they can advance. What they are apparently trying to do is to impose an armistice period between official acceptance of the Potsdam terms and the formal signature of unconditional surrender. An indefinite armistice period in which they