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[Official Japanese Surrender]

Item number (ISN):

227025

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

227025

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1984-0164

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Release date:

1945-09-01

Production company:

National Broadcasting Company

Production credit:

announcer, Merrill Muller; Welsley Edwards

Description:

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A shortwave report from the Pacific of the official surrender of the Japanese nation. General Douglas MacArthur and Nimitz Admiral Chester broadcast victory proclamations, as does President Harry S. Truman. Program concludes with Bethoven's "Eroica" (Third Symphony).~Announcers Merrill Muller and Welsley Edwards describe the scene. MacArthur speaks, saying that the issues have been decided on the battlefield, that he hopes a better world will come of this and that he will uphold the treaty.~The Japanese "with tense and deep mourning" sign first, followed by MacArthur who uses five pens. Then the representatives of the United States followed by those of China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand.~MacArthur speaks: "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always. These proceedings are closed". The announcers describe the scene and the departure of the Japanese delegation.~American President Harry Truman speaks recalling Pearl Harbor and the long bloody road to Tokyo. We must now approach the problem of peace. He thinks of and thanks those who made this victory possible - the dead, the wounded, the workers, the Allies - and calls it a victory of liberty over tyranny and a move toward a better world.~Douglas MacArthur speaks from the Pacific, "A new era is here", he says, "war is too destructive to be waged. We will not make the Japanese into liberal democrats according to Potsdam". The Japanese can become a better nation, he says, and concludes by saying that we won because of a better faith.~Admiral Chester Nimitz speaks, "We shall", he says, "westernize Japan, keep the peace and reconstruct the world".~Arthur Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra playing the Symphony No. 3 by Beethoven, "The Eroica." <1h 45mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Broadcast in Canada by the CBC.~2. See also ISN 132902.~3. For reference tape see 1982-0076/0003, cut 1.~4. Good deal of background noise.

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Vault ISN:

252078

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/1855
1984-0164/1856

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Technical description:

ALUM

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

260812

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/1853
1984-0164/1854

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Technical description:

ALUM

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

956351

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

227025-1984-0164-1853.WAV
227025-1984-0164-1854.WAV
227025-1984-0164-1855.WAV
227025-1984-0164-1856.WAV

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1984-0164/1853
1984-0164/1854
1984-0164/1855
1984-0164/1856

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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