Radio addresses, debates, etc.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson makes a radio-television broadcast to the nation from Washington. Speaking about the Lisbon NATO meetings, Acheson said that "giant strides" were made at the conferences, but warned that "vigorous" measures were still needed.

President Truman took to the air tonight, explaining his veto of the OPA Bill, to the American people. The President said that the Extension Bill was a choice between "inflation with a statute and inflation without one." He said that if the bill becomes law, the people of the country would think they had a workable price control law but would soon come to a "bitter realization" of the truth. From: Beth Gore.

President Harry S. Truman again took to the air waves tonight, discussing the administration's wage-price policy. It was described as one of the most important speeches of his career in the domestic field. From: Beth Gore.

Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor) Roosevelt, broadcasting for her husband, the President of the United States, on his 63rd birthday, shown at the microphones at the White House with Basil O'Connor, Chairman of the National Infantile Paralysis Fund. From: Beth Gore.

In a special broadcast from Washington, Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew warned that Japan has prepared herself for a long time to carry on the war after Germany's defeat. From: Beth Gore.

President Harry S. Truman tonight made his annual appeal by radio in support of the Community Chest Drive. From: Beth Gore.

President Truman poses with his speech at the microphone in the White House after he had finished his announcement to the nation that Allied armies had won unconditional surrender of German forces on all fronts. This is a candid 11 x 14 pose.

President Truman poses for photographers after the V-E Day broadcast announcing the surrender of Germany to the nation from the White House in this 11 x 14 photo.