Was Margaret Macmillan and robert. I am david at the editor of the policy journal and id also like to welcome the National Members for participating through the wide screening. I was saying i had a little surprise for the guests because 100 years ago today United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and gear up the war. President wilson had given an ultimatum that we didnt go to war at least not then. That power is on this side of the atlantic. The great menace of the moment i found this on the front page and the next 17 pages and there wasnt a single mentioning if youre a whereas the two featured authors today have on a cold day siege of the real world war. The second floor had the just concluded and now europe was building a deadly confrontation so it is my great pleasure to welcome margaret in the war that ended the piece, as she was describing it and on the far side it showed how it paved the way to understanding what was already building in europe and its been a great pas
President truman announced the official surrender. This is a solemn but glorious hour. I wish that franklin d. Roosevelt had lived to see this day. General eisenhower informs me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly all over europe. For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the west must now be won in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half of the world has been freed. United, the peaceloving nations have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far and the might of dictators are the tyranny of military clicks that once called us soft and weak. The power of our people to defend themselves against all enemies will be proved in the pacific war as it was proved in europe. Historic pictures last days of the war in europe show american and R
Won. A grateful nation gives thanks for victory. Hundreds of thousands crowd into american churches to give thanks to god. And president truman announced the surrender. This is a solemn but glorious our. I wish that Franklin D Roosevelt had wished had lived to see this day. General eisenhower informs me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly all over europe. For this victory, we join in offering our thanks to the providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light. Much remains to be done. The victory one in the west the victory won in the west must now be one in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the people from which half of the world has been freed. Nationsthe peaceloving have demonstrated, and the west, that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us weak. Our people to defend themselves against all enemies
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To a political solution, a political agreement to end the war. In this battle, the largest that has ever been fought by the United States army in its history, better than 600,000 better than 600,000 americans were engaged. And you can see, our lines famously bulged but they did not break. However, you have the story of the siege that is going to be depicted here. Most famously, George Patton is going to come up and save the town from the south after they had been surrendered. This was an incident that Many Americans will recognize from where thepatton, Commanding Officer was asked by the germans to surrender and he famously said to them one word, nuts. In this case here, you get a sense of how logistics are so important in war, particularly with things like gasoline up here. We have a german gas tank where you can actually see the sf markings on the side. Germans were running out of gasoline. We, however, are going to also not only have to deal with moving mechanical vehicles, tanks, a