The press
What the world was told
Mastheads chosen for range rather than volume. The point of the press layer is not more American coverage of an American-led conference — it is the same seventeen days seen from Tokyo, Chongqing, Yan'an and neutral Lisbon.
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C. · United States · English
The capital's paper, closest to the administration and to the delegation's own briefings.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri · United States · English
Truman's home state. A Missouri paper reporting on a Missouri president at his first summit.
22 issues in the window
The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia · United States · English
The American South, and a reminder that the conference reached readers far from Washington.
22 issues in the window
Nippon Times
Tokyo · Japan · English
Japan's English-language daily, published under wartime censorship. The Potsdam Declaration of 26 July was addressed to Japan; this is the paper the message was landing in.
22 issues in the window
Central Daily News (中央日報)
Chongqing · China · Chinese
The Nationalist government's own paper. Chiang Kai-shek signed the Potsdam Declaration without attending the conference.
22 issues in the window
Jiefang Daily (解放日報)
Yan'an · China · Chinese
The Chinese Communist Party's paper, printed in Yan'an. The same events, read against the Nationalist press.
22 issues in the window
Diário de Lisboa
Lisbon · Portugal · Portuguese
Neutral Europe. Portugal sat out the war; its press reported Potsdam as an outsider watching the settlement of a continent.
22 issues in the window
Day by day
A sitting that ended at seven in the evening reached a morning paper the next day, so each conference day collects the issues that carried it. Where a paper went to press the same day it is marked as such.
16 July 1945
17 July 1945
18 July 1945
19 July 1945
20 July 1945
21 July 1945
22 July 1945
23 July 1945
24 July 1945
25 July 1945
26 July 1945
27 July 1945
28 July 1945
29 July 1945
30 July 1945
31 July 1945
1 August 1945
2 August 1945
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