U.S. President Truman tells Americans news of Russian Declaration of War on Japan. From his desk in Washington, U.S.

U.S. President Truman tells Americans news of Russian Declaration of War on Japan. From his desk in Washington, U.S. capital, President Harry S. Truman announces to the U.S. on August 8, 1945 the news that the Soviet Union joined with the United States, Great Britain and other United Nations in the war against Japan, effective August 9. In a radio report made August 9 to the American people on the recent Berlin conference with Russian and British leaders, President Truman said, "Europe today is Hungry. I am not talking about Germans, I am talking about the people of the countries which were overrun and devastated by the Germans, and particularly about the people of Western Europe. Many of them lack clothes and fuel and tools and shelter and raw materials. They lack the means to restore their cities and their factories. As the winter comes on, the disctrss will increase ... We must help to the limit of our strenght. And we will."