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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 18:37:25 EDT
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> Truman saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese, by dropping those
> bombs.
> 

Did he?  Someone told me (this is net.rumor, right?  so i can use third+ hand
sources) that the Japanese had surrendered between the dropping of the first
bomb and the dropping of the second.  And that, since they no longer had
an embassy in the states, they used their friends and ours, the Soviets, to
transmit their surrender.  And that the Soviets delayed telling Washington
about the surrender until after the second bomb had been dropped.


david rickel
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