On the subject of who is or isn't a guerrillero, I'm inclined to put down everybody who just didn't like the Japs and wanted the Americans back, even if they were afraid to show it or were cautious about it. You can debate about the degree of each one's worthiness, but the overall effect was massive. I'm thinking of classifying them from top to bottom: active and inactive; from guys who didn't pay their streetcar fares to our paratroopers — those who persisted in jumping off the streetcars before they came to a stop. We could start from there and build up to the best status for an inactive guerrilla, or those who were keeping a diary or listening to short-wave radios. Some people even seemed to have better information, at times even ahead of the Joint Staffs in Washington. In the matter of strategists, we doubtless had the best in the world. I'm one of them. Without them we might have lost the war. I'm kidding, of course.

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Not much news and I missed all the papers. One paper had a front-page article titled: "300,000 guerrillas still unrecognized."

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Flash: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB dropped on Japan — equals an ordinary 20,000-ton bomb! Ye Gods!

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MFP: All about the Atomic Bomb. Smoke still hides Hiroshima well after it exploded over the city. Radio Tokyo acts as if it was just another nuisance raid. Belief in a quick Japanese surrender pushed the New York Stock Market down almost 2 points.

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MacArthur got a phone call, and a minute later, Mrs. MacArthur was outside calling the guards to tell them the tidings: Russia had joined the war against Japan. One of the guards then told me. Should shorten the war to a matter of a few weeks, or even less.

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