14Commentary On Endofthe War

Now we are going to bring you a special commentary on this news by Mr. H. V. Causenbahn, speaking from the NBC Newsroom in New York. Mr. Causenbahn. You can say it with emphasis, for it's ringing in millions of hearts all over the world tonight.

That glad news that we've been waiting for for years. And here it is. Sometimes it hardly seems for a moment that it can be true. We've become so immersed in war. We have lived the war so completely, so intensely that this transition from one moment to the next, into peace, seems almost impossible to realize.

And yet, we know it's true, we know that the President of the United States has told us that it is true. And here is what he said. The words deserve repeating again and again. I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government in reply to the message forward to that government on August 11th.

I deem this reply a full acceptance of the but-stumb declaration, which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan. In the reply, there is no qualification. Arrangements are now being made for the formal signing of surrender terms at the earliest possible moment.

General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander to receive the Japanese surrender. Great Britain, Russia, and China will be represented by high-ranking officers. Meantime, the Allied armed crosses have been ordered to suspend offensive action.

The proclamation of VJ Day must wait upon the formal signing of the surrender terms by Japan. Following is the Japanese government's message, accepting our terms. Communication of the Japanese government of August 14, 1945, addressed to the governments of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China.