charles bonesteel the third. and he f -- if you can envision the scene.fourteenth of august, he and another young kernel, dean rusk were in the outer office of george c. marshall and they are listening over the short-waved radio giving this speech in which gives the most profound understatement you ever heard which is the progress of the war has not turned out to our advantage. [laughter] >> i'll say, and we are surrendering. but the big problem now is the soviets because the soviets only entered a war a week previously, down to all the previous japanese places and northern japan down into korea and he says, we have to stop these people because if we don't, then all of this part of northeast asia, we are going to have the soviet japan, which would be long-term for everybody. so we've got to stop them. where should we stop them? >> they have a 1944 copy of the national geographic magazine on the desk and in it there are foldout maps which they used to give you three to four times a year. so this was japan and the north pacific. ben steel says to rusk, san