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No 'peep'
THE MACARTHUR for the
BALLYHOO
General Marshall was to the lowest rank of all-- shocking.
And I was well aware that they would never utter a word, especially to a stronger, that was at variance with Mac Arthur's own private opinions,
Don't be fooled by it!
H
by ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
Author of the plays "Idiot's Delight" and "The Patrified Forest": Editor of "The White House Papen of Harry L. Hopkins,” and for some years one of the group of petional advisers to President Roosevelt.
civilian.
.
President
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From NEWELL ROGERS The repercussions of this cour-
NEW YORK. ageous action are already auTN addition to his all-out dibic, 3,000 miles away.
political struggle over Truman's domestic focs are MacArthur, President Tru- attempting gleefully to blow mant has another major up into an nợt af high treason.
isauc on his hands-about "The
Conscience of the Senate."
entrance.
Ono general said to me, MacArthur can ride into "I thank God I don't have Washington on a white horse, it to serve Washington where he chooses to do so, and there is every policy decision is scant reason for hope that he dictated by British Imperialists will choose a less flamboyant or Russian Communists."
While I was In Manila-a It will be the biggest outburst of ballyhoo since the Return correspondent told me of a report that the Ame- from Elbs. But can it be kept ricans in Germany had es up for 100 days? tablished a bridgehead the Rhine at Remagen,
I went immediately
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He launched forth on a confirmation of this momentous Compounds. Electrical Appliances and
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cral MacArthur required courage of Olympian pro portions. This is dimeult ir not impossible to explain, especially here in this coun- try, where generals rigorously kept in their place.
are
the him
The President
missed an opportunity, in
general.
MaɑArthur will be holled as the supreme standard beater against the Communist nenace, But sober juigment will reveal the reverse to be the truth.
Stood Firm
and his laola-
Senator Chartes Tobey earned this title for his Impatient thundering at the recent TV crime hearings; they mado gangsters filnch and stutter.
"Tearfully, he called
on his fellow citizens to return to "the paths of clvfe honesty.
NOW
Senator Tobey turned to the allegett comings of officials in a Govern-
hag short-
ment loan agency. Twice be telephoned Truman about it,
First time, he says, the Presi dent accused Senators of mis- using their influence to get loans for constituents,
Willoughby professed total
TOTHING could have delighted gnorance of the situation in N
The second Ume Truman said and Stalin Europe. "We don't give a dama
Co. more than to have Truman, Acheson, and Tobey says
he had no evidenco of thla, Anti that theatre." he said. Marshall yiek to the urgings down Truman's words,
a recorder took know Etsenhower out at MacArthur there. We don't think much of
Lionist adherents and comminide. The Federal Communica- "Outrageous," says a Truman him."
the United States to minable war on the mainland of tions. Commission says it ig illegal unless the recortier goes East Asla.
"peep" every 15, secondle over the line to warn the other speaker,,
his speeches, to pay glow. His paragraphs, sen- (I have more than a suspicion ing tribute to the valiant tences, phrases were per- that this sentiment was warmly
fectly constructed, turned, redprocated by Ike.) rounded. He delivered them with the grand manner and assurance of an accom- ND. MacArthur seldom plished, Shakespearian ac-
Prime Issue
.
The fact that Mac- A missed an opportunity tor.
Arthur's position is unique
29 a
Volcanic
WHEN I returned to Washing- ton and reported do the President what I had heard from MacArthur, Roosevelt sald,
these things to me.”
un inter-
The would have meant, for America, forsaking all others, including Western Europe, 11 would have meant ulilmate, ab- jest surrender to the cynical Im- perialists in the Kremlin,
Harry Truman stood, Arm
my countrymen to believe they will support their President. Roosevelt had profound 10- People should not forget that of MacArthur's great there is another highly im- qualities as a soldier. He con- portant American military Agure sidered the campaigns In New in this confused picture, and his Guinea and the Fhippines to influence on public opinion will be masterpieces of strategy, of not be negligible. Improvisation and daring.
So a public debate is roging: For suel a thing, shouldn't the conscience of the Senate's Con- science be pricking?
COMIC STRIPS are going on
Metropolitan Art British Museum and National Gallery in one. museum America's culture,
-at the
Says the authority: "Fart of
burg, Florida resort, are offer- FLAT, owners of St. Peters- ing to waive a day's rent for each rainy day in May or June. Weather records indicate a safe bet
is not due primarily to his to lend himself to Roose-
I was also surprised by somewhat wistfully, "I wish that against that, and I have enough exhibition-first time anywhere velt's opponents as a prime admitted brilliance
the liberalness of his point he would sometimes tell some of confidence in the good sense of Museum, which is New York's soldier. It is due to his de political issue. liberate, prolonged, and In January 1945 I was of view. The words that he widely publicised opposition asked by the Secretary of uttered there in Manila to policies laid down by the Navy (the late James were fulfilled by his actions in Japan during the next to
go on 1 his Commander-in-Chief, Forrestal)
with the six years. the President. And that special mission applied to Franklin D. Fleet in the Pacific.
When President Roose- I was impressed with
However, favourably as Roosevelt as well as to Mr
the Truman.
velt heard of this he sent general, I was dismayed by for me and instructed me much that I heard from his The record of Mac- to make an effort to get staff. Arthur's insubordination to the Philippines, where goes back nine years. Im- MacArthur was then fight- Their utter disloyalty to ing, and try to see the President-to the Chief the general.
of Staff of the Army,"
THE ONLY TIME THEY MET
#* At Wake Island In October last Mr. Truman flew out half way' across the Pacific to meet MacArthur. They were reported to have reached 'complete unanimity in the Far East policy,
often
1
was
there
In the current Broadway suc- But Roosevelt also knew that cess, "Call Me Madam," MacArther had the kind of is a song by Irving Berlin that volcanic ambition which, In brings down the house at every other times, might have Impel- performance. It is applauded led him to assume the mantle of and cheered and encored again Consul and then of Emperor.
and again.
And now Harry Truman, the Mis- peppery little man from souri, has reduced mighty Caesar
David
AWAY
LONDON.
The title of this song is:- "They Like Ike."
-(London Express Service.)
Temple Roberts' · Festival
FROM
HE Festival of Britain sides.
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THE
two
POLICE unwittingly broke up a funeral procession at Atlanta, Georgia. A brother-in-law of the dead man, a pall-bearer, flower girls, and
Negro preacher's son, dropped out to buy lottery tickets at a house along the route just as police were raiding the place.
Guide
SKYLON
Roosevelt, who was then about to leave for Yalta, told me that it was extremely difficult. for Washington toj keep in full com- munication with
tween fields, its bare rolling hill try to sight-see in the afternoon and ask suspiciously what the MacArthur. or to
In the summer this It is dry, thirsty and crowded. hotel charges are, then offer to know what
northermost coast of. Britain is is designed to be as one of the most beautiful,
about a fih mare, (which The
But the greatest attraction of will still be much lower than
Pay really going on in all-embracing as possi- water for bathing is surprisingly Britain is being bored that remarkable, ble. So it will be difficult to warm the Gulf Stream again, countryside.
in the rates at the publicised hotel), Few visitors will saying that you think it is very mysterious mind. escape from. Almost every- That is for the romantic.
And grandeur or surprise in cheap, and you like comforts. British country. one is doing something and
Its particular The results are usually excel- But for comfort lovers who faculty is the breaking up Various
label it "for
of lent. This sort of England can high-will
the are really frightened of the space with hedges, trens and be enjoyed. In-aplte-of-the- ranking emissaries Festival" which means Festival I recommend slaying in undulating hills, and the break Festival. had been sent out, they will charge what Ireland and studying how the ing up of time with idle con- and
Englishman thinks he lived be versation, getting last in country traffic Mac the
can be ex fore the war. A certain nort lanes, and tallding about 10- Arthur refused to pected to bear. For Englishman (and his wife) has morrow's weather.
It is because this Festival we are becom- come back to Ireland. It
well to remember that see them
To appreciate these things it the most important person in of "pressure ofing rather Swiss, If you comfortable for retirement, and is scarcely necessary to choose a the neighbourhood is usually mediately after Pearl Har- duties."
know what I mean. But I locks. So if you want to see old will do but personally, I think of England. He will be called servants still touch their fore- village, or even a county-any the local Minister of the Church bour, President Roosevelt,
think there are ways I can English country life with the it is a little safer to settle in Sometimes he even
either "the Vicar" Mr Churchill, and the Com-
the re-recommend to enable you, Squire in his Hall, and his southern county of England, not Rector" the two titles mean bined Chiefs of Staff de fused them admission Into by using some ingenuity, to womenfolk Jodphurs nt too near London, out of range of the same thing. The Church. of cided that priority be given his vast theatre of war, see Britain during the Fes- stay in John Bull's Other Island than the seaside this summer- ago, adopted the effective social- point-to-point meetings, then the commuter. Inland is safer England, two hundred years to the war in Europe, that pleading "lack of billeting tival, without seeing the for your Festival.
and the small country town and political complete with Hitler must be beaten first facilities."
Festival in Britain.
policy of stationing before the waging of all-out
For the urbane who enjoy life With a hotel that does not ad- one The President figured war on Japan.
The first trick is to arrive in in the Big City and who want vertise will often give much classical education and sporting each village. The This-decision-irked-Mac--that since I was an obscure Britain by a strange route. It to see London without being more comfort and value than tastes-in
polley remains, though the In- Arthur, and his resent- civilian I might get through will find steamers that arrive at conducted tours, I have some re
you come from Scandinavia you herded by Festival guides or the hotel that does advertise.
One useful tactical move cumbent is often impoverished
(Continued on Page 7) ments multiplied when his where others of far great-Hull or Newcastle. From commendations.
the
And yet with obscure hotels is to arrive former subordinate, Gen- er authority had failed. Continent of
est Europe there are cheap way to "ece eral Eisenhower, was select He gave me a personal let-lights to Manchester; cross is from the top of a bus on a Channel travellers might slip o'clock. Do not try to start summer evening after seven ed to command first the ter of introduction.
away at Dover or Folkestone operations in North Africa
earlier as the buses vill be and explore the Romney Marsh overcrowded. But you will find the Ealing Studios country",
which is becoming known as them fairly empty from that the setting for English films.
hour until some time after ten in the evening.
It started "My dear and then the masalve in- Douglas”—and it express vasion of Northern France. ed the "hope" that perhaps MacArthur AAW Eisen- the general would find time hower getting the bulk of for a talk with me. the arms and men, the ships and aeroplanes, that he craved-and he has seen
If you come by plane from America then choose one that lands at Shannon, which is in
In
He Talked THERE
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Eire, and leave the plane there. You will need a good gulde The sea crossing might then be book and a bus map to choose
the same situation develop HERE was considerable made from Stranraer to Lame the route. You will find the No.
ing again.
doubt whether Throughout the war, he that letter
pleaded his cause through But it did.
all the elements in the U.S.
Unity Needed
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Congress and Press most MacArthur received me bitterly hostile to Roose most graciously, and
All the summer the Scots will Trafalgar velt. He became the hero hospitably, as was possible Games. You must try to avold house into the depths of
be organising what they call finally past Winston Churchill's of the Isolationists who in shattered Manila, where these. "colourful spectacles." spectable Kensington. were enger to discredit the armed Japanese soldiers They usually take place in large bus-route plan may be incon- President.
were still lurking in the there are rarely any seats and the usual hour for dinner in your Belds. Even if it does not rain venient, because It clashes with ruins and killing when the ground is as wet as an Irish hotel: But that may be an ad-First Class by: they could.
bog. The whole performance f is vantage. accompaniest not
I had some three hours calc
[called" "skiria the pipes." The drawhide of London, is ROOSEVELT did
›underrate MacArthur's with the general. Ho talk-The Scottish places that should that it is hard to escape from The nearest prestige. Ho know that die ed and I listened. I was be avoided for fear of this high- without a car.
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