Fire Patterson, Rankin demands
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Sewell’s ‘old form’ heartens Bucs
Blooper King blanks Giants by 4-0 score
By Chester L. Smith, sports editor
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Diary of Count Ciano –
North Africa landing stunned Nazis after rout of Rommel’s men
Germans had expected Allied attempt to relieve Mediterranean fortress of Malta
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Youngstown Vindicator (July 20, 1945)
Eliot: Big Three secrecy following old silly pattern
Dangerous rumors, leaks result; Truman against Russian blackout
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot
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Hayden: Japs will play Nazi war role
Wonders whether any Jap has authority to surrender
By Jay G. Hayden, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Lawrence: Truman uses new method
Puts Potsdam conference on less personal base than Yalta meeting
By David Lawrence
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U.S. State Department (July 20, 1945)
Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference
Friday, July 20:
Lieutenant Colonel James A. Blair, an old friend of the President on duty in the Berlin area, and Sergeant Truman had breakfast with the President. Shortly after breakfast Sergeant Truman left Babelsberg for Gatow to enplane for Paris and return to the United States.
1200: Generals Eisenhower and Bradley (Omar N. Bradley) called on the President.
1230: General Eisenhower, General Bradley and Colonel Howard A. Rusk were luncheon guests at the Little White House.
1330: The President, accompanied by Secretary Stimson, Assistant Secretary McCloy and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and Clay, left the Little White House by automobile for Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Bradley rode with the President in an open car.
1400: The President and party arrived at the U.S. Group Control Council Headquarters (Teltower District, Berlin), where the President participated in the official raising of our flag over Berlin…
The President left the scene immediately after the ceremony and returned directly to the Little White House. At 1500 mail was dispatched to Washington.
At 1545 the President and his party left the Little White House for Cecilienhof.
At 1605 the President called the fourth meeting of the Berlin Conference to order. The meeting adjourned at 1840 when the conferees assembled in the Palace dining room for a buffet lunch. Our party left the Palace at 1855 for the Little White House.
Colonel L. Curtis Tiernan, Chaplain Corps, USA, arrived in Babelsberg this afternoon and was a guest of the President for the next several days. Colonel Tiernan was the chaplain of the President’s outfit during World War I, and is now Chief of Army Chaplains in the European Theatre.
2000: Dinner at the Little White House with Assistant Secretary McCloy, Admiral Land and General Clay as guests. Sergeant List, accompanied by Pfc Stuart Canin (concert violinist), played during dinner.
U.S. Nevada damaged
LISBON (Domei) – The 29,000-ton U.S. battleship Nevada was seen to have been damaged during the Okinawa operations in a press preview of the latest U.S. Navy news film according to a New York dispatch. The film shows Nippon airmen scoring direct hits on the Nevada and the aircraft carrier Bunkerhill.