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WORLD NEWS Saturday 9 May 2020

Europe holds low-key V-E Day commemorations due to virus

Continued from Front II veteran herself, will speak really alone” and “morally
to the nation at 9 p.m., the ruined.”
People gathered in a soci- exact time that her father, “We had made an enemy
ally distanced way on the King George VI, addressed of the whole world,” he said
hills of London to marvel at Britons 75 years ago. in a nationally televised ad-
the Royal Air Force’s Red One sad moment was the dress, adding that 75 years
Arrows. The nine planes death of Flight Lt. Terry later “we are not alone.”
flew in formation above Clark, one of the last sur- Steinmeier underlined
the River Thames and let viving veterans of the Bat- Germans’ responsibility to
loose their red, white and tle of Britain, at the age of “think, feel and act as Eu-
blue smoke to mark the co- 101. The Ministry of Defense ropeans” in this time of crisis
lors of the Union Jack. said Clark joined the RAF in and to confront intolerance
Prime Minister Boris John- 1938, initially flying as an air whenever it emerges.
son, who lit a candle Thurs- gunner before becoming “We Germans can say to-
day by the grave of the a radio observer on Beau- day that the day of libera-
Unknown Warrior in West- fighters. Air Chief Marshal Wreath are left at the memorial of the Battle of Britain in London, tion is a day of gratitude,”
minster Abbey in remem- Mike Wigston, Chief of the Friday, May 8, 2020 on the 75th anniversary of the end of World Steinmeier said. “Today,
brance of those who gave Air Staff, said it was “parti- War II in Europe. we must liberate ourselves
their lives, wrote to vete- cularly poignant” news on Associated Press – from the temptation of a
rans, describing them as this of all days. “He served flame of the Tomb of the nies to honor the resistan- new nationalism; from fas-
“the greatest generation of our country with heroic dis- Unknown Soldier, atop a ce fighters and the Free cination with the authorita-
Britons who ever lived.” tinction,” he said. deserted Champs-Elysees France forces. rian; from distrust, isolation
Prince Charles and his wife, FRANCE Avenue in Paris. GERMANY and enmity between nati-
the Duchess of Cornwall, Unlike Britain, Victory Day Macron was accompanied Although V-E Day is a very ons; from hatred and agita-
led the country in a two- is a traditional public ho- by former Presidents Fran- different occasion in Ger- tion, from xenophobia and
minute silence at the war liday in France, but it was cois Hollande and Nicolas many, it’s considered a contempt for democracy.”
memorial on the grounds clearly far more somber Sarkozy, each carefully ob- day of liberation, too. “If we don’t keep Europe
of Balmoral Castle in Scot- this year with the country serving social distancing. German Chancellor An- together, in and after this
land. Charles laid a wreath under a strict coronavirus Macron used a hand saniti- gela Merkel and other top pandemic, we will prove
of poppies on behalf of the lockdown. There were no zer after signing the official officials laid wreaths at the not to be worthy of May 8,”
nation. At the U.K.’s main flybys, no parades. register. memorial to victims of war he said.
memorial on Whitehall Small ceremonies were al- Macron also laid a wreath and violence in Berlin, stan- Merkel spoke with Macron,
in central London, traffic lowed at local memorials at the statue of one of his ding in silence as a trumpet U.S. President Donald Trump
ground to a halt as people as the government gran- predecessors, Charles de played on an empty Unter and Russian President Vla-
observed the silence. ted exceptions to restric- Gaulle, the general reve- den Linden boulevard. dimir Putin by phone to
The “Victory in Europe” tions following requests red for leading the French “The corona pandemic is mark the moment. Russia,
speech by Britain’s wartime from mayors and veterans. Resistance from London forcing us to commemora- which was then part of the
prime minister, Winston President Emmanuel Ma- after France had fallen in te alone,” President Frank- Soviet Union, saw tens of
Churchill, was broadcast cron led a small ceremony 1940. Walter Steinmeier said. He millions of casualties during
on television. Queen Eliza- at the Arc de Triomphe. He Macron urged people to recalled that, on May 8, the war. It marks V-E Day on
beth II, at 94 a World War laid a wreath and relit the display flags on their balco- 1945, “the Germans were Saturday. q

Spain’s army predicts 2 more waves of coronavirus

By JOSEPH WILSON per ABC on Friday and later produced by the army as
Associated Press confirmed as authentic by its own forecast of the pan-
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — the AP. demic, which it can share
Spain's army expects there "There will be a second with civilian authorities.
to be two more outbreaks wave of COVID-19" in Spain's government has its
of the new coronavirus, the autumn or winter the own experts who make the
according to an internal army report said, adding final decisions on health
report seen by The Associ- that it will be less serious policy, taking into account
ated Press. The army report than the initial outbreak the opinion of other institu-
predicts "two more waves due to higher immunity in tions and outside experts.
of the epidemic" and that the population and better Spanish Prime Minister Pe-
Spain will take "between a preparations. It said that a dro Sánchez has warned Members of the UME (Emergency Army Unit) wearing protective
year and a year-and-a-half "possible third wave would that he considers it highly suits to protect from coronavirus prepare to disinfect at the 12
to return to normality." be greatly weakened" next probable that the virus will Octubre hospital in Madrid, Spain, Spain, Thursday April 30, 2020
The document was pub- year if there is a vaccine make comebacks until a as the lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus continues.
lished by Spanish newspa- available. The report was vaccine is developed. q Associated Press