. -- keep the emperoro. across the southwest, pacific command issued a report in 1945 that says the hanging of the emperor to them would be like the crucifixion of christ to us. all would fight to die. almost every advisor of truman urged him to change the surrender terms. that was in america's interest. america planned all along to keep the emperor, but we refused to single -- we were calling for unconditional surrender. what else would end the war? at yalta, roosevelt finally got a promise from stalin that three months after the end of the war in europe, a big massive red army was going to come to the work against japan. truman met with churchill and stalin to make sure the soviets were coming in. he got agreement from the soviets the first day of the conference. stalin will be in the japanese war by august 15. he writes home to his wife the next and says the russians are coming in, the war will end a year sooner. think of all the boys who won't be killed. he says the japanese are trying to surrender. he d