We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.