Re: Annual attempt at correction

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Gratefully, this is an annual "correction attempt" which fails each year

as a result of its own errors.  Even the annual silliness of  "Chernobyl

30,000 deaths" seems to succeed better than this atomic bomb thingy.

Just no accounting for taste, but thankfully some sanity does continue

to prevail.

Sincerely,

Maury Siskel           maury@webtexas.com

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Michael Kay wrote:



> Quote from President Truman's Personal Journal July 18,

> 1945:"...Stalin had told P.M. of telegram from Jap Emperor asking for

> peace. Stalin also read his answer to me. It was satisfactory. Believe

> Japs will fold up before Russia comes in..." Photocopies of the

> journal pages are in Technology Review, August-September 1990. The use

> of the atomic bomb did not end the war! It was essentially over. There

> was not going to be an invasion of the Japanese Homeland. The purpose

> of Truman's using the atomic bomb was to avoid having to share

> hegemony after the war with Stalin. The arguments that the

> preparations for the invasion were still going on are correct. There

> is no need to stop the show until the papers are signed. This is good

> strategy. The dislike of Stalin by Truman is the reason he wanted to

> have control over Japan at the end of the war. The previous page in

> the journal talks of dividing up the colonies and mandates of Italy,

> which Truman would have to share with Stalin (and possibly the

> British). July 18, Truman told P.M. (Winston Churchill) of the success

> of "Manhattan". Truman was out to make certain that Japan surrendered

> to him before Russia attacked Japan from the Northwest. The above is

> not revisionist history. It is from Truman's own hand. The revisionist

> history is that it was necessary to drop the atomic bombs to avoid an

> invasion of Japan and end the

> war.*********************************************************** Personally,

> I also think that the "We have it so let's use it and see how it

> works." thoughts entered into the decision. Michael

> Kaymakay@alum.mit.edu



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It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the

freedom to demonstrate.                       Charles M. Province





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