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‘ Se a Tolgon ardman SPS AAT TT ieee nak fae SS Nae aaa ae So a oe oe Belmont ——____ THESE DAYS: 7 ; ‘ Mason iiarerre: —aerrener e Mohr 'N ble Fi Rosen 0 of Rosen Oo e igur e. o Roses . Aree - This. Confused Era’ Alneied : Tele. Room Cy ‘By GEORGE E.. ‘SOKOLSKY © Holloman ——_____ Gandy ‘8 ONE lies here ‘and ‘thinks of men ‘and a events and the courses ‘and tides of os it comes to mé_ | ‘that tomorrow, General Douglas-MacArthur will celée- brate his 76th birthday. “I hope T “have the date right . ; _ f-but here I may not look anything up or telephone. For At “ ke only one hour each day I am excused from being ‘a , vegetable and thus far, there have been no untoward’ y:results.. During that one free hour, I write these little ; essays just-as.I.am sure:a fiddler would.want to rnn © over the strings of.a violin.. We are all creatures of. habit and for nearly 40 years now, I have informed the : p orid on this. and that and the habit is too 0 strong fe brea cr anata , be To return to Douglas MacArthur, his: birthday ~ pught to be marked in’ some manner tor this Is an ex-. i traordinarily truthful man in an era of mediocre time- s servers. * His is a,philosophic outlook on the history and. : future of his country rather than\an over-specia zed: “emphasis.on personal self-preservation, - - atte ee i e He is acknowledged in ‘his own occupation 4 be: “our greatest general, perhaps the most competent nh ro ae “gnilitary mind we have produced since Robert E. Lee; oo prow pe o he was kicked out by military lackies, most of whose - oo ames we: have already forgotten: They ‘may have ROT RECORDED {gotten rid of. Macarthur from. the army but not from 126 JAN 31 356 p S place in history. va _ Ridgway’s ‘Charge ae) en 7 And. as he Yemains alive, we must ask him. about: 7 ; General Matthew Ridgway's disclosure that a report to: Wash. Post and H the nation was faked and who was responsible for fak- Times Herald {ng it. For MacArthur suffered much from- the moral ’ Wash. News ‘ irresponsibility of the Pentagon where: men become’ so Wash. Star "* engrossed in detail that they’ never think of the con- N. Y. Herald j_ Sotuenees of What they da. woke re : Tribune — =~ = Tgnet General: ‘Ridgway at & dinnér shortly after . N. Y. Mirror > he. returned from Korea and his conversation: was all . - N. Y. Daily News . ‘th -one direction, that MacArthur had ‘been -tight and ~ the politicians in Washington all wrong and: he: ee privately of how.thé lives of our sons, Were ‘endan| : = because of arms shortages. are of érimes have ‘been committed: 4n° ‘ene’ ‘Daily Worker The Worker New Leader é& Hot polities, or loyalty..to the *commander-in- = ST ert ‘whktever that may be in’ American life. But now: Date —Jfhi 2 3 139D_ th honest men are talking it up and it {s not going tobe: mo, : : easy to. answer. ‘Nobody can answer Ridgway's 5 paige - ;