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	Surrender To God
		Surrender means to yield ownership, to relinquish control over what we consider ours: our property, our time, our "rights." When we surrender to God, we are simply acknowledging that what we "own" actually belongs to Him.
		Adam and Eve were given a choice to surrender to God when He said, "you shall not" as opposed to "you cannot." The fruit of this tree is not something we're likely to find in the produce section of our supermarket, but rather it represented the alternative God offered.
		Had they chosen to surrender the longings of their hearts to God, it's possible that we may all be living eternally on a perfect earth, right here and now.
	www.allaboutfollowingjesus.org /surrender-to-god.htm (786 words)

	Unconditional Surrender - History Forum
		Unconditional Surrender appeals strongly to the American mind, it goes along with enterprising Americans forging the wilderness of the frontier, shaping the Native Americans and fl slaves and forcing them into a culture that changed every part of the globe, destorying the old decadent European culture and forming a new, upright, American one.
		By demanding unconditional surrender, the allies guaranteed that the enemy was completely defeated and that the forces in their governments that drove them to war were ripe for removal and judgement.
		Unconditional surrender and all plans linked to it was effectively used as propaganda by Dr Goebbels, who convinced Germans to fight on to avoid slavery to the Allied powers.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2802 (3365 words)

	United News > May 2005 > Unconditional Surrender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But unconditional surrender is not just for the history books, as it plays a vital part in our relationship with our Savior and conquering King.
		Unconditional surrender is not an easy state of mind to bring into being.
		Someone must come to really see that he (or she) has been totally and absolutely conquered and that his only choices are unconditional surrender, imprisonment or death.
	www.ucg.org /un/un0505/surrender.htm (1875 words)

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		This instrument of surrender is independent of, without prejudice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument of surrender imposed by or on behalf of the Allied Powers and applicable to Germany and the German armed forces as a whole.
		This act of military surrender is without prejudice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of the United Nations and applicable to GERMANY and the German armed forces as a whole.
		The unconditional surrender of Germany has thereby been effected, and Germany has become subject to such requirements as may now or hereafter be imposed upon her.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/war.term/093_02.html (5295 words)

	Books: Why FDR Decided to Demand Unconditional Surrender
		When the French admiral refused to surrender his ships, the British opened fire on the anchored vessels, a decision Churchill admitted was "the most unnatural and painful in which I have ever been concerned." The reaction to this slaughter in French North Africa and in Vichy, the new capital of defeated France, was profoundly negative.
		Winston Churchill manfully chimed in with a hearty endorsement of their "unconquerable will" to pursue victory until they obtained "the unconditional surrender of the criminal forces who have plunged the world into storm and ruin." It may well have been his finest hour as a political performer.
		Unconditional surrender was anything but accidental and its meaning and intent were profoundly serious.
	historynewsnetwork.org /articles/article.html?id=204 (2286 words)

	Unconditional Surrender Leads to Atrocities by Paul Clark
		Of course, individuals are responsible for their own actions, but it was the unconditional surrender demanded by the pentagon which made these crimes possible.
		General Douglas MacArthur, a truly moral man, privately opposed Roosevelt and Truman’s unconditional surrender policy for months prior to the end of the Second World War, and eventually defied Truman’s policy by announcing that he had accepted a surrender with conditions.
		MacArthur had repeatedly warned Truman that insisting on unconditional surrender was causing the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Japanese and Allies.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/clark7.html (721 words)

	Unconditional surrender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unconditional surrender is a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law.
		In the era post World War II, the comparable example of unconditional surrender is that of the Pakistani army in East Pakistan at the hands of the Indian army and the Mukti Bahini during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 or the latter half of Bangladesh Liberation War.
		The use of the term was revived during World War II at the Casablanca conference when American President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered it to the other Allies and the press as the objective of the war against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unconditional_surrender (437 words)

	UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
		The memorandum also stated, "The United Nations war objective is unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers.
		The accomplishment of this objective may require the invasion of Japan." This is the earliest official mention of the possibility of an invasion of the Japanese homeland.
		On 25 May 1945, the JCS issued a directive to begin formal planning for the campaign, code-named "Operation Downfall," which was to force Japan's unconditional surrender.
	www.fas.org /irp/eprint/arens/chap1.htm (3004 words)

	Unconditional Surrender Esther Thornton
		Unconditional surrender is a full surrender and asks nothing in return.
		This does not mean that leaders who are fully surrendered will have everything going their way, and if they have spiritual warfare, they are out of the will of God.
		Those who are fully surrendered are not to focus on these things, but to focus upon the goal that is set before them and continue on in it, regardless of what others say or think.
	www.etpv.org /2003/us.html (2469 words)

	Fall of Singapore: 'unconditional surrender'
		The water supply on Singapore Island had virtually dried up, petrol supplies were almost exhausted, military supplies were running low and the constant bombardments of the city were causing shocking civilian casualties.
		Percival realised that his only options were to fight to the death or surrender.
		Although many troops endeavoured to evade capture, some deserting in the last days of fighting and others making a break for it when they heard of the surrender, there were not enough boats to get more than a few off the island.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/surrender.html (366 words)

	Critical Asian Studies
		Many other arguments for unconditional surrender, however, came not just from the right end of the political spectrum, but also and even predominantly from the left.
		However, Stalin had not been adamant about unconditional Japanese surrender in earlier discussions with Hopkins (he personally favored it, but understood the short-term benefits of accepting conditional surrender; he proposed telling Japan that its surrender would be conditional and then imposing harsher terms which would eliminate Japan's military potential).
		Some U.S. policy makers worried that offering terms for surrender would be seen by the Japanese military as confirming their view that the longer they held out, the better terms they would get.
	www.bcasnet.org /articlesandresources/article10_10.htm (1298 words)

	Unconditional surrender, demobilization and the atomic bomb
		In Unconditional Surrender, Demobilization, and the Atomic Bomb, Dr. Michael Pearlman brings home this point through his shrewd assessment of the complex issues confronting U.S. officers as they debated the best course of action to follow in ending the war against Japan.
		Unconditional surrender was primarily a battle cry meant "to concentrate the attention of public opinion upon the winning of the war." As a coherent statement of political objectives, it had two competing definitions, when it had any clear meaning at all.
		"Unconditional surrender," as a battle cry, was as meaningful a statement of war aims as "Remember the Maine" was in the Spanish-American War.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Pearlman/pearlman.asp (9338 words)

	Japan's Surrender, 1945
		De spite heavy destruction of Japanese cities by long-range bombers and the looming defeat that now faced the country, it seemed unlikely that there would be a voluntary surrender in view of the "unconditional surrender" demands of the Allied forces and the apprehensions of the military regarding the person of the emperor.
		Though these terrible events failed to induce the military leaders to concede defeat, their resistance was o vercome by the emperor who pushed for acceptance of the surrender terms, since amended to leave some hope for retention of the imperial system in a democratic Japan.
		The decision to surrender was broadcast to the nation by the emperor--an unprecedented ev ent in itself--on August 15 while further rescripts were issued to the armed forces ordering them to lay down their arms.
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~jobrien/reference/ob101.html (935 words)

	Copyright © 1999 by The Voice of Prophecy
		Who shall we surrender TO?" And so they picked a nation with a long reputation for fairness, for neutrality, for decent human rights and all the rest.
		He wants your unconditional surrender, so that you consider all 168 hours each week as belonging to Him; you're on call to Him all day every day, all week every week.
		And we have to keep stepping back and remembering that we surrendered and ARE surrendering each day to a God who unconditionally loves and accepts us.
	www.vop.com /previous_broadcasts/1999/sep/99374.htm (1494 words)

	Surrender
		Japan agreed to the terms of an "Unconditional Surrender" and the War in the Pacific was all but over.
		It was this stretch of beach along the East Coast of Kyushu that VMD-354 had been making repeated Photo Reconnaissance Missions gathering critical data using the Sonne Continuous Strip camera to measure water depths, under water obstacles, surface conditions, etc in preparation for the allied invasion.
		Two of the VMD-354 Photo Pilots, Lt.'s D. Schofield and W. Derby were assigned to deliver the Surrender Instructions to the island commander of Chi Chi Jima, an island fortress still being held by the Japanese Army.
	www.usmarinecorpsvmd-354.com /emnatofjapsu.html (363 words)

	TIME.com: Time to Back Up? -- Apr. 17, 1944 -- Page 1
		Unconditional surrender is an American idea dating from the U.S. Civil War, a conflict in which one side or the other had to give in completely.
		Britain's adherence to unconditional surrender is based on: 1) the determination to reform and re-educate Germany; 2) the equal determination to avoid any truck whatever with Hitler and his gang; 3) the acceptance of the argument that a war between ideas means a European civil war rather than one between nations.
		"Unconditional surrender" was coined at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,885451,00.html (637 words)

	German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 refers to the legal instrument of World War II in which the High Command of the German Armed Forces surrendered simultaneously to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet High command.
		The unconditional surrender was signed by Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, on behalf of the High Command (German acronym OKW) and as the representative for the new Reich President, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz.
		This Instrument of Surrender applied to all military forces on land, at sea, and in the air who were at that point of time under the control of the German High Command.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender,_1945 (899 words)

	Truman’s Motivations: Using the Atomic Bomb in the Second World War
		The Potsdam Declaration contained the insistence on unconditional surrender, which consequently left the continued existence of the Emperor ambiguous.
		This is undeniable proof that Truman was aware of the possible ramifications for failing to alter the terms of unconditional surrender.
		could obtain were unconditional surrender with the stipulation that the Imperial institution could remain.
	www.johnwcooper.com /papers/atomicbombtruman.htm (5148 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| American Civil War \| Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of Unconditional Surrender Begins at Fort Donelson
		At Fort Donelson, “Unconditional Surrender” Grant learned that negotiating peace can be the most important part of making war.
		But it was at Fort Donelson in Tennessee, during his first negotiated surrender, that Grant initially revealed the character traits and behavior patterns of the victorious captain.
		Lloyd Tilghman, sent out a flag of truce asking the terms of surrender, Foote sent back a blunt reply, “No sir, your surrender will be unconditional!” In one sentence Foote, the Navy man, had shattered all the old-fashioned and gentlemanly protocols of surrender.
	www.historynet.com /wars_conflicts/american_civil_war/4754821.html (1427 words)

	Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Discussion: At Yalta, the Allies decided that unconditional surrender was th
		At Yalta, the Allies decided that unconditional surrender was th
		At Casablanca and then again at Yalta, the Allies decided that unconditional surrender was the only way that they would accept German or Japanese surrender.
		Berlin was reduced to rubble by the advancing Soviet forces, who took it upon themselves for getting revenge against the Germans for their attacks on Stalingrad and Leningrad.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/76688/645667 (269 words)

	The Baisakhi Day - Unconditional Surrender
		In this Prema, the input is surrender of the Self and the output is God Himself.
		Such a surrender literally determines the true eligibility of the aspirant for the Amrit of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib.
		Eligibility is determined on the basis of total surrender and total sacrifice for the Divine.
	www.baisakhi1999.org /baisakhi/bsurr2.htm (490 words)

	Hiroshima Controversy (Morgana's Observatory)
		The term unconditional surrender was always a propaganda measure; wars are always ended with some kind of conditions.
		Douglas MacArthur, convinced that retaining the emperor was vital to an orderly transition to peace, was appalled at the demand for unconditional surrender.
		At a loss for a military explanation for use of the bomb, Leahy believed that the decision was clearly a political one, reached perhaps because of the vast sums that had been spent on the project.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/himalia2.htm (1955 words)

	Germans sign unconditional surrender - Victory! The End of the War in Europe - CBC Archives
		The chairs, which sit at a long wooden table in a map-lined war room, are for two German commanders, who will sign three documents spelling out the unconditional surrender of Germany's land, sea and air forces.
		On instructions from Hitler's successor, President Karl Doenitz, the German envoy General Alfred Jodl agreed to surrender his forces to the western Allies.
		Soviet General Georgy Zhukov of the Red Army accepted the surrender of German forces on the eastern front from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-71-1682-11570/conflict_war/veday/clip4 (499 words)

	Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History: Pre Cold War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Decision: Chronology
		Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy argues to Secretary of War Stimson that the term "unconditional surrender" should be dropped: "Unconditional surrender is a phrase which means loss of face and I wonder whether we cannot accomplish everything we want to accomplish in regard to Japan without the use of that term."
		Grew writes: "The greatest obstacle to unconditional surrender by the Japanese is their belief that this would entail the destruction or permanent removal of the Emperor and the institution of the Throne.
		Farrington Daniels, Director of the Met Lab at the University of Chicago, reported to James Compton that 72 percent of the scientists favored a military demonstration of the bomb in Japan or in the U.S. with Japanese representatives present before using the weapon on civilians.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/decision-drop-bomb-chronology.htm (2696 words)

	German Surrender Documents
		This insturment of surrender is independent of, without pre- judice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument of surrender imposed by or on behalf of the Allied Powers and applicable to Germany and the German armed forces as a whole.
		We the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the Supreme High Command of the Red Army all forces on land, at sea, and in the air who are at this date under German control.
		No ship, vessel, or aircraft is to be scuttled, or any damage done to their hull, machinery or equipment, and also to machines of all kinds, armament, apparatus, and all the technical means of prosecution of war in general.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/surrender.htm (4092 words)

	Collapse or unconditional surrender of Italy 5/11/43 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		To determine the courses of action the UNITED NATIONS should adopt in the event of the.
		"Unconditional surrender" of ITALY, meaning the orderly compliance with terms of surrender through the control of an organized government.
		A civil war in ITALY may develop through the rise of an Anti-Fascist and Anti-German revolution..
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /fdr/psf/box2/t17i03.html (231 words)

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		They have never made unconditional surrender of their lives to the God who loves them more than life.
		The grace of the sacraments and the fullness of the truth have been met with the unconditional surrender of their will to the will of God.
		A surrendered Catholic (or a serious Catholic per Catholic Answers) knows and adheres to the teachings of the Church because they know by faith that Christ has always and continues to lead His Church into all truth.
	www.envoymagazine.com /EnvoyEncore/Detail.asp?BlogID=2064 (499 words)

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