08VEDay Gabriel Heater

Good evening, everyone. The last communique of World War II was in. Russia proclaims tomorrow as V.E. Day. The Russian people were told tonight for the first time of Germany's unconditional surrender. Moscow radio reports all turned, laid down by General Eisenhower, were ratified tonight in Berlin.

Field Marshal Keitel and Admiral Friedburg signing for Germany. In the presence of Lieutenant General Carl Spatt, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Field Marshal Zhukov, and General D. Tassignet. There was some anxiety in many quarters today, when ten hours went by without any proclamation in Moscow.

Russia evidently waited for the official hour one minute, part six tonight, Eastern wartime, and Russia evidently waited for the ratification in Berlin for the crowning hour of German humiliation, unconditional surrender and the capital where the war was planned.

And they evidently waited for the final death rattle in Dresden and Prague, where the fighting came to an end but a few hours ago, and surrender became official one hour ago. And now the guns are quiet everywhere in Europe, and the lights are on.

And the hearts of men and women are lifted and thanksgiving as millions say tonight. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Peace, in Europe. Hitler's war produced one photograph which belongs, but there was words, peace. A house in London, a just and hit by a flying bum.

People were killed, rescue work was going on. The picture shows a woman warden carrying out a child. The child crying, pressing its cheek on the woman's helmet, clasping her neck. There's fresh blood on the woman's hand.

And the London newspaper which published that picture wrote these words. This picture tells us much. It tells us children were on the front line. It tells us it must never happen again. The guns are silent as the lights are on.