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General Douglas Macarthur — Part 4

63 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Mar 6, 1964 · Broad topic: General · Topic: General Douglas Macarthur · 62 pages OCR'd
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aA now be told on highest 5 Btate Becretary Acheson ' pwhich | ‘ended a. military lspanning’S2 years, ~— , The five star general does not) © tect that President Truman or the Oey i ded to intimates the belief tha Hacheson maneuvered the firing .Rnost from the outbreak of. - Acheson, the son of British-born parents, has strong leanings to- we Europe and has long'neglect- | Asia. Acheson has been credit- din. Congress along with Defense tary Marshall for the policy which paved the way for com-. tion of China. Friends of MacArthur hold cheson, the man who would. his ‘back on Alger Hiss, i -spy-perjurer, would and did tab the Pacific hero in the back. ur shares this view, | ‘ a reearthur 1 harbord no “bitter. 33 or rancor against the’ Presi- br even Acheson, but ‘hewfeels | strongly that continuance of Ache- hon’s policies ‘will spell disaster sor the nation, Many members of Macarthur is aware that Ache- ; jr ’s State department wrote the . es, The speech was or the geferal weeks ag0. | MacArthur sees the hand of: Acheson behind the smear cam-' the Administration is under-. “ . . s learned from unimpenchible MacArthir's: scalp with. renewe a f MacArthur's Asia | dependent upon the State depart- critical 0 written |ment for estimates of Chinese in- . ot. - - oo - %. join ie log ge ¢ ~ peg if & ~ . af hh fiat trata ot the campaign: ere revealed yesterday © ¢ publication of a “leaked” st ed eome of the historic ; ference between MacArthur ‘and! Mr. fanaa at Wake Island last | tor the White House decision :* ‘Chinese Communists would not en-. tom an: investigation into: > all ‘Apology Is Allered It was alleged Macarthur spol ‘igized to the President for em- g him on the Form e. A spokesman for MacArthy ined that the White House ha aked the story in an attemp offset the mounting public mup- quilt _gport of the general. - ‘Gen. MacArthur's attitude on. I Formosa was. given to the world: by the Chicago Tribune and the. Washington Times-Herald with the first publication of the text’ of a speech the general sent for treading at the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chi- cago. * Efforts were made by the Ad- | ministration te suppress and ww the speech. The Chi- go Tribune and the Times-Heg- Id first printed the text in , er papers followed. The Sta t began gunning ¢£ This ‘correspondent ‘learne from-a source of highest veracit: ten Marshall that MacArthur's speech to thd| fent, Defense Secretary veterans’ organization was sent to the White House. three weeks be- fore delivery and that the general tried several times to get clear-. iance. When no word came, he assumed that there. was no ob- lection to his message. _ MacArthur © can ‘ produce rec. tds to prove he submitted the peech and éalled it to the atten- ion of the White House. several times. - ‘The general is ion. because he was not. al. Make. reconnaissan: the New York Times which de ithe American: people. ~ bas documents port his assertion before Co ‘that résponsible © milita: n, incinding the Joint chiefs in “accord - with , “were - views in the Orient. He ‘has’ s {He ‘policy. ‘military. He is reported .to feel that military Pojicy in -Asia and Europe hes been dictated not military men, whose life bus: ss is national security, but by! / ate-department men who mak licy and direct the military t the cloth to fit their: patterns. - : Intimates of the general. report he feels ‘that. Acheson ‘and ‘his State department colleagues. have reduced military men.to the status -of Messenger boys. ‘The . general feels -that direction .of national security should be returned ad the jtrained military patriots. - . At the moment MacArthur was leesee, “his policies in. his dra; ‘matic and historic speech -befo: ss, Mr. Truman was clo: d at the. Whit: a ‘Acheson was identified as one of; * vestigation by Adolph A. Berle, former assistant secretary of state, He has long been regarded as the. head of the pro-British bloc. | lan, which was named after Ge arshall, then Secretary of State e is credited with a major ro the 3.75 billion dollar gift @ State department. acca A) ee (- eens a, — f ner 5 "Re RESORDED aw per A: oC. 10 1951 ye woul. ee Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room__ ‘Nease Gandy Page Times-Herald P_l& _ Sec I Wash. Post — Wash. News __ Wash. Star __ N.Y. Mirror —__ _N. Y. Compass___ Date:
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