UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 8, 1945
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V-E DAY--der from the government of the German people as well as from the German military command.
In Victors Hands
After signing the surrender, the German General Jodl, declared, "With this signature, the German people and armed forces are for better or worse delivered into the victor's hands. In this war, which has lasted more than five years, both have achieved and suffered more than perhaps any other people in the world."
Then the President declared that the job, however, is only half done.
"If I could give you a single watchword for the coming months, that word is—work, work, work.
"We must work to finish the war. Our victory is but half won. The west is free, but the East is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese.
"When the last Japanese division has surrendered unconditionally, then only will our fighting job be done."
In his V-E day proclamation, officially notifying the nation of the end of the war in Europe, the President said:
"The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of freeborn men.
"They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children and murdered their loved ones. Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to the suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressers could never enslave."
The President set aside Sunday, May 13, as a day of national prayer.
He said in a news conference in which he read his message to the nation and his proclamation of victory to a room full of assembled correspondents that it was eminently fitting that the day of prayer should also be Mother's Day.
day of prayer should thus be the unconditional surrender of Germany and the final cessation of hostilities in all of Europe, he directed this challenging warning to the last Axis partner, Japan:
"The Japanese people have felt the weight of our land, air, and naval attacks. So long as their leaders and the armed forces continue the war the striking power and intensity of our blows will steadily increase and will bring the utter destruction to Japan's industrial war production, to its shipping, and to everything that supports its military activity.
"The longer the war lasts, the greater will be the suffering and hardship which the people of Japan will undergo—all in vain. Our blows will not cease until the Japanese military and naval forces lay down their arms in unconditional surrender."
Then the President gave his formula of what unconditional surrender means in precise terms to Japan.
"Just what does the unconditional surrender of the armed forces mean for the Japanese people?
"It means the end of the war."
Malott Tells of Plans
In a statement concerning victory in Europe, Chancellor Malott said today. "In keeping with the spirit of solemnity and continued purpose which marks the close of the war in Europe, the University of Kansas holds to its appointed tasks observing only in an all-student convoction, the cessation of the hostilities against Germany."
"Let us in this hour of victory dedicate ourselves to the high purpose not alone of peace, which means war's end, but of a peace which is lasting, which will lendure with surety through the years to come."
"Thus, do we consecrate the day to the memory of 134 gold stars, honoring the sons of K. U. who will never return."
Mark W. Clark
Mark W. Clark, commanding general of the United States Fifth army, was born at Madison Barracks in New York in 1896. His father was the late Col. Charles C. Clark.
He was graduated from West Point in 1917 and went to France in 1918. While fighting in France he was wounded during a battle in the Vosges sector. He returned to the United States in 1919 and until 1920
Clark was named the chief of staff of the ground forces in 1942.
he was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth.
Before the invasion of North Africa he secretly visited the African coast to test French sentiment. In this campaign he was Eisenhower's deputy commander-in-chief.
(continued from page one) services the evening after the V-E day announcement at 8 p.m. The Rev. M. F. Bess will give the sermon. The Immanuel Lutheran congregation will have a service at their own church at 8 p.m. At Trinity Episcopal church thanksgiving communion will be held at 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. the morning after the V-E day announcement. One hour after the official announcement is made, St. John's Catholic church will have a holy hour.
CHURCHES TO HAVE--lands East Indies. Jan. 26—Americans land in Ireland. Feb. 15—Singapore surrenders. Feb. 27—Japanese invade Java. March 4—U.S. navy raids Marcus island. March 17—General MacArthur reaches Australia. April 9—Bataan falls. April 18—Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. May 1—Japanese take Mandalay. May 6—Corregord dorsurers to Japs. May 9—Japanese navy beaten in Coral sea battle. May 30—R.A.F. mass bombing of Cologne. June 6-U.S. beats Japanese navy off Midway. June 10—Germans wipe out Lidice, Czechoslovakia. June 13—Japs occupy Attu and Kiska. July 3-Germans capture Sevastopol. Aug. 7-U.S. marines land at Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomons. Aug. 19—Allied raid on Dieppe. Aug. 22—Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. Nov. 8—Americans land in North Africa. Nov. 27—French destroy own fleet at Toulon. Dec. 13—Americans take Bunn, New Guinea. Dec. 24—Darlan assassinated.
Today Also President's Birthday
President Harry S. Truman has a double interest in today, May 8. Besides V-E day it is his 61st birthday anniversary.
Women's First Pep Rally in 1915
Women's First Pep Rally in 1915
The first women's pep rally of the University was held on November 30, 1915
1939
Chronology of World War II
Feb. 10 — Japan occupies Hainan Island. March 16 — Germany announces protectorate over Bohemia. Moravia. Slovakia; Hungary anexes Ruthenia. March 28 — Franco's troops enter Madrid. April 7 — Italy invades Albania. April 27 — Great Britain begins general conscription. May 22 — Germany and Italy sign alliance. August 21 — Germany and Russia sign 10-year non-aggression pact. Sept. 1 — Germany invades Poland. Sept. 3 — Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. Sept. 5 — United States declares neutrality. Sept. 17 — Russians invade Poland. Sept. 28 — Warsaw falls. Nov. 30 — Russians invade Finland.
1940
March 12 — Russia and Finland sign peace agreement. April 9 — Germany invades Denmark and Norway. May 23 — Allied troops retreat from Norway. May 10 — Germany invades Low Countries; British occupy Iceland. May 11 — Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. May 14 — Dutch army surrenders to Germans. May 28 — Belgians surrender. May 29 — British flee from Dunkirk. June 10 — Italy declares war against Allies. June 14 — Paris falls. June 17 — Russians occupy Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia. June 22 — Germany and France sign armistice. July 3 — British attack French fleet at Oran. July 25 — Roosevelt declares embargo on exports of oil and serap iron. Aug. 4 — Italy invades British Somaliland. Aug. 12 — Germany starts blitz bombing of England. Aug. 19 — British yield Somaliland.
Sept. 1—Roosevelt orders National Guard into service. Sept. 3—Roosevelt announces exchange of 50 old destroyers for naval base concessions. Sept. 16—United States begins first peace-time selective service. Sept. 22—Japan occupies French Indo-China. Sept. 27—Germany, Italy, and Japan sign "new order" agreement. Oct. 28—Italy invades Greece. Dec. 9—British invade Libya.
1941
March 11—Lend-Lease Act passed. April 6—Germans invade Yugoslavia and Greece. April 12—Germans and Italians defeat British in North Africa. April 13—Japan and Russia sign neutrality pact. April 17—Yugoslavia surrenders. April 27—Athens falls and Greeks surrender. May 19—Italians surrender in Ethiopia. May 27—German battleship, Bismarck, sunk by British. June 22—Germany invades Russia. July 17—U.S. troops land in Iceland. AUG. 1 4—Atlantic Charter an announcement. Oct. 17—Tojo forms new Japanese cabinet. Dec. 7-8—Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Wake, Guam; declares war on the United States and Great Britain. Dec. 9—China declares war. Dec. 11—Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. Dec. 24—Wake island falls. Dec. 25—Japanese take Hong Kong.
Jan. 2 — Japan occupies Manila.
Jan. 11 — Japanese invade Netherlands East Indies. Jan. 26—Americans land in Ireland. Feb. 15—Singapore surrenders. Feb. 27—Japanese invade Java. March 4—U.S. navy raids Marcus island. March 17—General MacArthur reaches Australia. April 9—Bataan falls. April 18—Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. May 1—Japanese take Mandalay. May 6—Corregord dorsurers to Japs. May 9—Japanese navy beaten in Coral sea battle. May 30—R.A.F. mass bombing of Cologne. June 6-U.S. beats Japanese navy off Midway. June 10—Germans wipe out Lidice, Czechoslovakia. June 13—Japs occupy Attu and Kiska. July 3-Germans capture Sevastopol. Aug. 7-U.S. marines land at Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomons. Aug. 19—Allied raid on Dieppe. Aug. 22—Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. Nov. 8—Americans land in North Africa. Nov. 27—French destroy own fleet at Toulon. Dec. 13—Americans take Bunn, New Guinea. Dec. 24—Darlan assassinated.
1942
1943
Jan. 31—German siege of Stalin grad falls. Feb. 9—Japs quit or Gundalcanal. Feb. 14—Russians recapture Rostov. Feb. 16—Romme defeats Americans in Tunisia. Marcel 28—British crack Mareth Line; Rommel retreats. May 7—Allies capture Tunis and Bizerate. May 11—Americans land on Attu. May 13—Germans surrender in North Africa July 10—Allies invade Sicily. July 19—First bombing of Rome. July 25—Mussolini resigns. Aug. 15 Americans take Kiska; Attu already recaptured. Aug. 6-16 American take Munda and Vella Lavella from Jap. August 17—Messina, Sicily, fall to Allies. Aug. 23—Russians recapture Kharkov. Sept. 3—Invasion of Italy begins. Sept. 8—Italy surrenders; Russians occupy Donets basin Sept. 16—Russians take Novorossisk. Sept. 17—Germans retreat from Salerno. Sept. 17—MacArthur's troops take Lae. Sept. 25—Russians recapture Smolensk. Oct. 1—Allies occupy Naples. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Oct. 13—Badogic declares war on Germany. Nov. 18—R.A.F. raids Berlin with 1000 bombers. Nov. 20—Russians retake Kiev. Oct. 8—Hitzer declares, "The Reich will never surrender!" Nov. 18—R.A.F. raide
1944
Jan. 4—Russians cross into Poland.
Jan. 20—Russians recapture Novgorod. Feb. 1—Americans invade Marshall islands. Feb. 7—U.S. navy bombards Paramushiru, Japan. Feb. 18—Americans bombard Tuk base in Caroline islands. March 20—Germans retreat from Ukraine. March 27—Japs begin offensive in Burma India area. April 10—Russians take
Odessa. May 10—Rusians recapture Savastolov. May 18—Allies take Cassino. June 4—Rome falls to Allies. June 6—D-Day; Allies invade Novumandy. June 15—First superfortress bombing of Japan. June 16—England suffers from robot bombs. June 27—Allies occupy Cherbourg. July 9—British take Caen. July 14—Allies begin St. Lo offensive. July 18—Americans occupy Saipan. July 20-Hitler injured by would-be assassin. July 27—Russians take Lwow and Lublin. July 30-U.S. marines invade Guam. Aug. 5—Americans reach Brest. Aug. 21—Conference opens at Dumbarton Oaks estate near Washington. Aug. 25-Germans surrender Paris. Sept. 2—Americans enter Belgium. Sept. 11 Allies advance into Germany. Oct. 11—U.S. navy bombards Formosa. Oct. 19—Americans invade Leyte, Philippines. Oct. 24-U.S. navy wins battle off Philippines. Nov. 7-F.D. Roosevelt elected to fourth term. Nov. 20—Allies enter Metz. Dec. 18—Germans begin big counter offensive. Dec. 28—Allies besieged at Bastogne.
1945
Jan. 10—Americans invade Luzon, Philippines, at Lingayen gulf. Jan. 17—Russians take Warsaw and Krakow; Germans retreat on western front. Feb. 2—Russians within 40 miles of Berlin. Feb. 5—MacArthur's forces liberate Manila. Feb. 8—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta. Feb. 13—Russians capture Budapest. Feb. 19—U.S. marines land on Iwo Jima. March 8—American troops cross the Rhine; Russians within 25 miles of Berlin. March 21—German military collapse begins. March 23—Mainz falls. March 26—Frankfurt falls. March 27—Argentina declares war on axis. March 30—Russians take Danzig. April 1—Americans invade Okinawa. April 4—Germans caught in Ruhr trap. April 5—Russia denounces neutrality pact with Japan. April 11—Americans reach Elbe river. April 12—President Roosevelt dies. April 18—American 3rd army reaches Czechoslavakia. April 23—Russians overrun Berlin. April 25—American and Soviet armies meet at Torgau or Elbe river. April 28—President Truman denies radio report that Germany has surrendered.
April 30—Mussolini is shot to death by Italian Partisans at Milan; Russians reach Tiergarten in Berlin. May 1—Hitler reported dead in Berlin; Admiral Karl Doenitz assumes command of the Reich. May 2—Berlin falls—Stalin announces end of resistance in German capital; all German troops in Italy and in southern and western Austria surrender unconditionally; Allies start invasion of Borneo. May 3—Hamburg falls. May 4—German troops in Holland and Denmark surrender; captured German leader, Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Runsed, declares Allied aid power was most decisive factor in German's defeat. May 5—Americans continue slow gains on Okinawa and Mindanao islands.
May 7—Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at 2:41 a.m., Paris time. May 8—Official proclamation of the end of the war in Europe is proclaimed.
KANSAS HAILS--general lent by the Rusisan army.
(continued from page one) good humored command of the most complicated situation the United States army had ever met." Six months later he was made a major general by President Roosevelt. British Officers Admire Him
Sometime in the summer of 1942 an allied headquarters was created in London with a staff of British as well as American officers working under Eisenhower. One British officer said that having Eisenhowr was the next best thing to having a
"He is our 'Eisen' and this is our 'Hour.'" the officer said.
The British soon adjusted to "Ike's" habit of calling generals by their first names, and before long he was probably the best liked if "the least social." American officer in London. He once begged off a luncheon date with, "I can't—I've got a date in Berlin!"
Has One Son
He married Mamie G. Doud in 1916. They have one son, John S. Doud, who is a member of the class of 1944 at West Point.
Mrs. Eisenhower said, "Dwight
In "ike's" home town, Abilene, where his mother still lives, they celebrated Eisenhower Day. The general sent a cablermag.
dislikes living in the city if he can live in the country. He also dislikes a mussed-up morning paper, so I see to it that nobody touches it before he sees it."
"If the home folks try to high-kill me and call me by titles instead of Dwight," it read, "I will feel I am a stranger. The worst part of high military rank is the loneliness that prevents comradeship. I wish I could be home and gather at the cafe with the gang."
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