A-Bomb Not Necessary
(N.Z.P .A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, Jan. 6.
General Douglas MacArthur, the former Allied commander in Japan, said in a memoir published today he knew nothing of the atomic bomb’s existence until just before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima.
In the first instalment of his memoirs appearing exclusively in “Asahi Shimbun,” a national daily. General McArthur said the intervention of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan on August 8, 1945. was unnecessary, because Japan had already been practically defeated.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30332, 7 January 1964, Page 11
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