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General Douglas Macarthur — Part 4
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forgotten “the Pearson” memory becomes -.dim - and
past ~ @ al history is mentally rewritten.
2 st and . Paid him, ? 0 However, the :reai history of
. But the ‘posthumous “inter-| the Korean War, as shown ‘in
views, in’ which ~ MacAi . files of . the. Pentagon,
Ytried-to write history: the way| proves. the contrary. of Gen. x j
jhe thought it should be—not|/MacArthur’s memory.:_ ™; The Washington Post and D |
qthe way it was—have now] And since the reputations of!
dopened old wounds. They. also/ other military men, along with!
Times Herald
shave -opened ~ “some hitherto a former President of. the The Washington Daily News
jconfidential files in the Pen- United States, ate~at ‘stake; The Evening Star
ftagon. er eae
and ‘since many people have New York Herald Tribune
’. These files, ‘plus’ ‘other con-| blamed - ‘Truman for’ refusing
Uversations with the. Old Sol-/to permit bombing ‘north - of New York Journal-American —
ddier, show that in his latter the Yalu River, this column! New York Mirror
dyeats ‘sitting high fn the Wal-|will undertake to report | from, New York Daily News
Ndorf Towers, he was_a bitter,/ the. Pentagon files. New York Post
brooding man—brooding over ‘They show three - points ew Borewe
fine last battle he fought,|which Gen. MacArthur either The New York Times
i which ended in his ummary ignored or forgot:
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etirement. : 1. There was a secret agree- ‘ The New Leader
RG continued | 50 bitter that ment with ‘the Chinese Com, . The Wall Street Journal —_—_
p. the summer of-1960 he told|munists thatwe would no EC-21! °
‘one ‘distinguished “diplomat: {bomb north of the Yalu Rive The National Observer —______
“Eisenhower wes always weak,{and they in turn would not
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