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General Douglas MacArthur — Part 01

16 pages · May 13, 2026 · Document date: Mar 7, 1944 · Broad topic: General · Topic: General Douglas MacArthur · 15 pages OCR'd
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d.th .racies will adopt.the Lauro Quotes Iim as Saying acteristicsof .each other. Wars Betwegh Nations *. Mayor Achille Lauro of Naples, Before ending'the visit, which was -badly: damaged:In Lauro obtainedGeneralMag gio World War. II, called, on Gen- Arthur's promise that-whenever he wented toEurope hewould eral of the Army Dougla.s Mac- certainly:visit Naples:Hisryoung Arthur yesterday and received son,ArthurMacArthur, the General's cheering opinion ited that war between countries' on! this earth was- probably obso- York Harbor, a d had Junc ete.. However,.. war between., the planets may replace. it, in the] reception in th afternoon and General's. opinion, Mayor Lauro] reported afterward.. Waldorf-by Mayor WagnerTo- The Neapolitan Mayor, who is morrow he will fly to Washington. stopping at.the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during his four-day stay in New York, was scheduled to. visit General MacArthur, who [resides at the hotel, briefly for! an.exchange of greetings. I am delighted that General MacArthur. did me the honor of! allowing me to remain for forty! five minutes," Signor Lauro said. Cannot believe this interview. "I am also delighted that he is pleased with Neapolitan workers in his. Hactoryinmy VE city." Sperry Rand(Corporation, which General MacArthur is chairman of thd board, recently : built a plant in'Naples employ- ing 600 persons. It is to be ex- panded.to employ 2,000. Factors for Uniting World General MacArthur described himself .as "a confirmed opti- mist' regarding the possibility of: another Poorl.. War, Mayor Lauro said. "He thinks that another war would be double .suicide: and that there is enough sense on! 'both sides of the Iron Curtain! to avoid it," the Mayor went on. 4'He believes that because of the developments of science all! the. countries on earth will have to unite to survive and to make acommon front against attack by people from other planets." The politics of the future will 2-75/04 be cosmic, or interplanetary in General MacArthur's opinion, NOT RECORDSD the Mayor continued. He quoted the. military leader as saying 126 0CT 20 1955 that a thousand years from now. today's civilization would appear as obsolete as the stone age. During the visit Ahe two men. discussed Dr. Albeft Einstein. "General MacAfthur. said he admired him as a scientist al- Signor Lauro said. "He quoted Einstein's reply. when asked what weapons would that he did not know what weap ons would be used in a third world war'but that a fourth global conflict would be fought with sticks and stones." 1955
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