No V-Day?

Untie those whistles; take those boards off the shopwindows; disband those parades; put that bottle of bourbon back on the shelf—there may be no V-day.

So said the War & Navy Departments last week in an OWI statement: V-day may be spread gradually over days and weeks. No general surrender of the German Armies is expected; they may gradually disintegrate and surrender piecemeal. And the Allies' policy is not to accept surrender from any hastily contrived substitute German Government; the Allies are not looking for any Nazi Badoglio; the war with Germany will be finally over only when all Germany...

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