Mr Ito, Vice President of the Hiroshima Peace Society, formally digs up soil to plant a Peace Tree (camphor wood variety). The tree had actually been planted before the commencement of the ceremony so this act is merely an empty formality on the part of the Japanese.
Queale, Alan
1948-08-06
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