December 2nd, 1945 (SUNDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The maiden flight of the prototype Bristol 170 Mk 31 Freighter G-AGPV occurs today. It can carry bulky cargoes such as 3 ton trucks or the new helicopters for 800 miles.
The first islanders return to the Channel Island of Alderney.
GERMANY: The US Ninth Air Force is inactivated.
ALBANIA: The Soviet Union and the Western Allies had recognized the Communist-dominated government of Premier Enver Hoxha on 10 November. Having eliminated all opposition Enver Hoxha, the secretary of the Albanian Communist Party calls elections, which return a single list of official candidates.
BRAZIL: A general election is held today.
FRENCH INDOCHINA/Vietnam: The Viet Minh declare Vietnam a free and independent state.
JAPAN: The Diet passes resolutions on "War Responsibility" and "War Responsibility of Diet Members" which reads:
"Having been defeated, our nation is facing the greatest threat in its history in every aspect of ideology, politics, economies and society. To establish a way of rebuilding Japan as a moral nation and of ensuring permanent peace, we must try to discover the causes of this defeat and determine those who were responsible, in order to implement measures to prevent a future recurrence of such mistakes."
Called on to prosecute those responsible in order to build a "Japan as a moral state," the legislators described "responsibility" as follows:
"We think war responsibility should be defined in the following two ways: responsibility for initiating the war, which is attributable to those who recklessly plotted to disturb international peace, and responsibility for criminal offenses involving of atrocities committed during the war in violation of international conventions. The general public, which followed state orders and legally performed those activities, should therefore be exempted from any responsibility."