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General Douglas Macarthur — Part 4
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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
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