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one y Se, ee ne ee Gen. MacArthur on the success- ful maneuver of his troops out ‘of the HOcKet Into which the in-|500 wounded. — tervention.of Red Chinese arm-| Speaking also of constitutional fes had placed them in Korea,|rights, the “Left Wing” has al- The message read: ways raised a furor over legis- “7 wish to express by personaljlation to authorize “wire tap- Americans were killed and 103,- - thanks ... for the effective op-|ping,” which the Department of eration. It is the best Christmas|Justice thinks under certain present J have had.” safeguards should be allowed so Agtced About Formosa as to help catch criminals. But There was an incident in Au-{20t protest came from the “Left gust, 1950, when a misunder- Wingers” in a flagrant case of standing arose about a message eavesdropping which is in the which Gen. MacArthur had sent|records in connection with the) to a convention of the Veterans|Wake Island conference. A ste- of Foreign Wars in Chicago. It nographer was allowed to listen was in this telegram that the|@t a keyhole and when, in later General had outlined the impor-jmonths, it suited the Adminis- tance of holding on to Formosa|tration politically to slip the and supporting the Nationalistjnotes to a newspaper, this was government. But, two months|done in an effort to injure later—Oct. 15—Mr. Truman and|Macarthur. the General were holding their] Describing the incident in a famous conference at Wake Isl-|recent issue of “Life” magazine, and, after which the President|Gen. Courtney Whitney, Mac- told the press: Arthur's “Man Friday.” writes: “Gen, MacArthur and I have] “Without our knowledge the talked fully about Formosa.jprivate secretary of Philip Jes- There is no need to cover thatjsup, a member of the Presiden- subject again. The General anditial party, had evidently been Iare in complete agreement.” secreted behind a partially Pe was only six months laterjopened door to the conference when Gen. MacArthur, answet-|/room, tne what he thought was @ rou. Lurking behind the door. tine inquiry from a member Ofjcould hear through the small Coneress, wrote to Rep. Martinignening and what she could wee of Massachusetts expressing the by peeping through the key’ same views that he had ex-},, eyhole, . with the result that her account pressed before on Formosa and the importance of winning the of sadly Inedewaien at best war in Korea. Yet it was this letter which aroused the ire of Remark Still a Puzzle Mr. Truman and caused him to} Theré was. Gen. Whitney de-; dismiss the Genera! without sojclares, a political purpose behind much as the courtesy of a hear-]the Wake Island cénference. He ing. — writes: : : No outery over this failure of| “But what Truman personally “due process” and obvious dis-|—and the Democratic party— regard of “constitutional rights"|gained by the trip was tremen- came from the “Left wingers."idous in terms of political advan- Maybe if the General had shown/tage. By this one stroke, only some sympathy with the Com-|three weeks before the 1950 Con- munist cause of had had ‘anjeressional elections, the Presi- unele or an aunt in the Commu-|dent was able to establish a con- nist party, there would have|nection between his administra- been a wave of protest from thejtion and the military stratecy “Left wingers.” But he was only[against which most of his mili- an American General who hadjtary advisers had argued but gallantly fought his way back tojwhich had just won the great the Philippines from island to|victory at Inchon.” island in the Western Pacific] So it ts still a puzzle as to why and who had served his country}Truman now says he should under fire not only in two world{have fired MacArthur “two years wars Dut—zlso in the Koreanjsooner.” i erry Tne, \“police action” in which 33,600! cooyrignt, 1955, N. ¥. Herald Tribune she could record only what she: . ante detain A