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‘ .. MacArthur's ' Re irthday 0-19 (11-22-55) Be: os AS ‘ONE. “LIES “here ‘and instructed to do.” But. how to. “ nothing’ but a: i fob for those E thinks of. men and events and- ‘the courses and tides of his- “tory, it comes to me thet on ~ 4 iz h u rsda AY Reeser acArthur gyi celebrate £ “his 76th, birth- z day. I hope I Whave the date § Xright:‘but jchere. I. may mot look. any- 4 thing. up or = telephone. - Sokolsky - ought to be marked in some manner, for this is’ an ex- - traordinarily truthful man in ‘an. era of mediocre time-serv- - erg. His is a philosophic out- look on the history and fu-, ture of -his country. rather | than an. over-specialized -em- phasis on personal self-preser- ‘Weation. ‘He is ‘acknowledged in eshis ' G6wn occupation to bé ‘our. ? preatest ‘general; perhaps the , gg cme a a }-mMost competent military mind ! - we have produced since Rob- : F ert E. Lee; so he was kicked * out by.military lackies, most ' of whose names we have al- ie Sealy -forgotten. They may ‘Shave gotten rid of MacArthur | x rom the Army_but not from apis place in history. = “AND AS HE remains alive, “we ‘must ask him about Gen. "Matthew Ridgway’s disclosure 2 that a report to the Nation as faked and who was respon- . ible for faking it. For Mac- peible 4 suffered much from p the. moral irresponsibility of _eonsequences of what they do, vet Dotglas MacArthur, sa military: man, could not Fetnderstand why he ‘was in- s tricted“to go into a war to ‘achiéve "uw: defeat, There was Lnever a question of insubordi- j Ration. —pecatize his jammy i defeat ps be had Been 4 TINS A QR ane ww understand | these: orders? How to interpret them? How . to make them fit a philosophy of war? That be could not do. And so he spoke out and. got ’ fired after serving his coun- try from West Point to a com- “Mander of a theater. . - WHEN MEN. speak ot mo- vale in the Army or clergy, or in: schools or anywhere, they _, . Yeally speak of that quality . of pride that mén have in. their work and their ‘associa- , tions. The “‘old tie” may be; a phrase for seryiée that held “better than all the rules books ever devised. When Gen. Mac- Arthur was dismissed sum- marily, without even a face- saving .- device, a. blow was struck not at him: but at the/ morale of our Armed Services/: A noble overtone of service disappeared. - te all - became em ‘who learn how “to stand in ‘right, who know. just ‘what to ‘say at the right moment, the apple-polishers. —.. Efficient and competent‘ as they may be, . and nobody doubts: that, they . lack a _ moral ela, and their lack is _ conveyed ‘all down ‘the line to ‘the men, A hero’s breed mu: “be heroic and these men w ‘knifed- MacArthur to plea politicians were. not heroes, ¢ Coprrisnt, radiate if jpeatures CP LE213. Proan AIDED Me SLi oy iJ56 we eRe en A, - . The Worker < ot Tolson nay LO eee Be QAodee DipXBelno Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy Weld Wash. Post and 26 Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star —_ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune 2 N. Y. Mirror —3—___ N. Y. Daily News Daily Worker —— New Leader - . seb eel Date JAN O66 6 — Php