RADIO BROADCAST FROM SAN FRANCISCO ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF GERMANY May 9, 1945 Today the act of unconditional surrender of Germany was made public in Moscow. We have reached the long- awaited day of victory over Hitler Germany. On this day all our thoughts go out to those who by their heroism and with their arms ensured the victory over our enemy, the mortal enemy of the United Nations. The memory of the fallen warriors and the countless vic- tims of German fascism will remain sacred to us forever. We shall honestly fulfil our great obligations to the dis- abled soldiers and the orphaned families. On the day Germany launched her piratical attack on the .Soviet Union, the Soviet Government declared: "Ours is a just cause. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours." This we have now achieved, in a long and stern fight. The Soviet people bent all their energies to expel the in- vader from their country and to uphold their liberty and in- dependence, as t