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NEWS-HERALD Tuesday Evening, April 7, 1964 Part 2 of a Series MacArthur Stirred Strong Pro and Con Feelings By EELMAN MORIN Associated Press Writer Gen. Douglas MacArtbur less than the office of president of the United States. They seldom questioned his genius as a a strong man and he stirred soldier. But they seriously ques- strong feelings, pro and con, jtioned some of his political judg- about himself. ed with a smooth, swinging stride.

He held himself erect seemed taller than he was. Sometimes, in Ms office, he would sit with one leg dangling jments. Toward the end of his i over the arm of a chair as he "Very few people really know'career, the feeling about him in But when he became un- Douglas MacArthur," wrote'Washington was a mixture interested in the discus- Gen- George C. Kenney, his Air bewilderment and fury.jsion, he often would pace the Force commander hi the Pacif-l About the only neutrals emphasizing Ms points by, ic war. "Those who do, or think newsmen who generally tend toijabbing the air with the stem of HO i A llim Inntr ft He would analyze a complicated political or ia3itary situation in clear, simple language, moving logically from point to point as though he were reading.

However, not all his state- meats were couched in simple language. corner of southeastern Korea still was in non-Communist hands, the Pusaa perimeter. Months before that, however, MacArthur coolly announced that the Reds had lost their opportunity to win the war. He spoke in a quiet, matter-of-iact they do, either admire him or look at the great and near-great a corncob pipe. For example, when his name I manner.

was advanced as a possible '-Maybe the Old Man knows candidate for president, MacAr-twhat he's talking about." said dislike him." MacArthur's close associates were fiercely loyal, with a slightly sardonic eye. j'thur said he would not actively 1 a correspondent. "But it looks un a siignuy saraonic eye. A tray of smoKed out corn- seek the nomination. Iss though he's 180 degrees off Sitting in a room with Mac- cobs usually was near his deskJ Then he added: "I would be i the beam this time intensely Arthur, this is what you frequently, he smoked ci-jrecreant to all my concepts of! Yet the perimeter held.

Then, ion Even when he was 70, he was gars and cigarets. 'good citizenship were to! with the Inchon landings in II JlO A rmf. I deep and in'shrink, because of the hazards September, the tide turned. The A i MacArthur often bordered on still a handsome man. He look-! His voice was idolatry.

They may have dis- ed much younger. Little or no'making a public speech he agreed with him in private. But gray streaked hL jet black pitch it to an even lower outside the star chamber, they He had a chiseled profile, with.key. Then he often sounded like would tolerate no criticism of a high forehead, a large old fashioned, voice Old Man. ,11056 and a square, firm His critics were equally posi- His eyes were large and dark.

the battlefield, or pondering called him a megalo- a problem, he often squinted un- Uve. They -namac and a show-off. They til they became slits. aid he was consumed with am- In his outh, he had been an iition and aiming at nothing athlete and all his life he walk- doom orator. He was more effective in a small room than on the public platform.

MacArthur had an astonishing and responsibilities involved, from accepting any public duty to wMch I might be called by the American people." war in fact was won until the Chinese Reds intervened. Even that news seemed to leave MacArthur unmoved. command of language. He talked fluently, seldom stumbling Religious references appeared! The thunderbolt from Wash- frequently in his wartime ccm-jington--when President Harry muniques and pronouncements. S.

Truman fired MacArthur-- MACARTHUB RETURNS Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, with Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland at his side, waded through surf on his return to Philippine Islands at the unasion of Leyte Island in (AP) Gen. MacArthur Felt Some People Were Against Him By JAMES MARLOW I interested congressmen and Associated Press News st! Gen.

Pershing's plans were WASHINGTON (AP) Gen. killed." Douglas MacArthur was not a When the second volume of simple man. He was romantic, wnen secon voume but elouent but senti-i Trumans mem appeared in but tough; eloquent, but sentimental; charming, but austere: but suspicious. He felt some people, besides Communists, were his enemies i ful conspiring against him. Be-j cause he so often wished views to prevail, he was some times hard to get along with.

One writer, Richard Rovere, was a "true believer in himself and found it 'necessary to ascribe his dis- 1956, explaining why he fired MacArthur, the general said the former president "did violence to the and was "venge- MacArthur saw intrigue criticized for leading in full uniform and on a wMte horse --regular troops and tanks ordered by President Herbert Hoover to oust the "bonus army" veterans of World War I who had holed up in shacks on the outskirts of Washington. WMtney explanation: The veterans were infiltrated with Communists who anted to create mob violence against the in Ms dismissal. He said it hap-, government. He writes of a pened after he had demanded secret document in prosecution of a spy ring which the CommuMsts planned was getting top secret military! to hang Mgh government offi- plans sent to Washington with MacArthur heading Of the troops lost in the de- came without warning. Whit- fense of Bataan, he said: iney said MacArthur was having "To the weeping mothers luncheon party.

The an- dead, I only say that thelnouncement was whispered to sacrifice and halo of Jesus him privately. He said MacAr- Nazareth has descended upon jthur's face froze and the general their sons and that God will quietly remarked to his wife: take them unto Himself." "Jeannie, we're going home." The famous broadcast to the! Next: "Home by Christmas" set-and dashed hopes, the Public Views Filipinos when MacArthur foot on Philippine soil for first time said: "I have returned. By the; grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippines. sou." One of MacArthur's confi-S NEW YORK (AP)--A shriv- dantes, Maj. Gen.

Courtney eled yet somehow majestic fig- Whitney, said MacArthur was a deeply religious man, a practic- Episcopalian. MacArthur worked every Sunday and did not attend church, but Whitney wrote: "Eight a.m. was the time for family prayers. They were led by Mrs. Phyllis Gibbons.

She conducted the service from the Anglican book of common prayer, with MacArthur reading the Bible On reaching his office in the morning, WMtney reported, Mac Arthur first read the messages that had come from the United States during the night --and the first of these invari- and visitors to had an oppor- ure in simple sun tan uniform lay in a history-laden armory today, a magnet for Americans conscious of their heritage. New Yorkers the metropolis tunity to view the body of General of the Army Douglas MaeArthur and meditate on his 60 years of service to the republic. From 10 a.m. until as far into the night as any mourners are in line, the 7th Regiment Armory, home of "the Silk Stock- will remain open. The general was clad in the tropical uniform he wore in the msi.

vi uiese invari- ably were those bringing base-i Pacmc war and dunn 2 fte bari or football scores! rean summer s- accordance Whitney said the former head football coach at West Point. Earl Blaik, wrote McArthur regularly about the team and frequently consulted him about tactics. MacArthur remarked to WMtney on one occasion: "I see Army started its sec- of Ms many medals, just the five stars of Ms rank. As the body lay in repose, 19-gun salutes roared at many Ms Korean command appointments to base in-L He said thought Gen 'George C. Marshall, then sec- trigues." retary of defense, and Gen Although Gen.

John J. Per- Omar Bradley, then chairman sMng, MacArthur's top commander in World War I. decorated Mm, the New York Times of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were 'personally hostile to me" and that the enmity went back some the list. MacArthur. when the storm broke over Mm.

said the "mob was a bad-looking mob. It was animated fay the essence tf revolution." GEN. AND MRS. MACARTHUR -General of the Army Douglas MacArthur with his wife in November, 1962, during presentation of a plaque from the Retired Officers Association in his New York Waldorf Towers suite. The occasion was an Annistiee Day ceremony honoring him.

Mrs. MacArthur, Ms second wife, was the former Miss Jean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn. (AP) places--at West Point where he jmade the most brilliant scholastic record of all time, and later i was superintendent; in New ond string backs York well other VIT 1 gener shl areas on the continent, Of all the many facets of MacArthur's extraordinary personality, one of the most impressive was his marble calm. Apparently it never cracked. selected points in the Pacific.

In Washington, leaders of Congress made arrangements for the body to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda Wednesday and For example, during the The general wiH be months of the Korean War, i buried in the MacArthur Memo- news from the front was consistently gloomy. American and South Korean troops kept falling back until only a tiny sin that city. rial building at Norfolk, Saturday, after funeral services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church artiii istonc says Pershing told him: "Young; time. man.

I do not like jour atti-l tude." i iet. Truman record of his i conversations with MacArthur Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in his at Wake Island six months be- history of the New Deal, says fore his dismissal quotes the President Franklin D. as saying: ''No com- velt thought MacArthur danger-jmander in the history of warl WASHINGTON (AP)--Former nevertheless made, ever had more complete and, ea ker Joseph W. Martin him his chief ot staff, command-'adequate support from all agen-' 0 ce made pub a letter that er in the Pacmc, and gave him cies Washington than I iended th military career of a the Medai of Honor.

have." jfriend The friend never men The Washington Post's mill- 1 But it was Maj. Gen Court-! IeUer a ain and nei tary editor. John G. Norris. Whitney.

MacArthur's aide, ther did Martin and tw0 re ports that when Maj. Dwight confidant for more than 2o' mained dose to the end Eisenhower served under Mac-years, who Aid the biggest job. The Mend was General of the wr "I hlllppinesc 1 Bounding up the various in-l Ar mv Douglas MacArthur. who I93a Jiey had differences of supposedly working' died "Sunday. In a reminiscent Iraon and Eisenhower returned against the general.

-interview. Martin reviewed the home. i ft Two days after the letter he replied to me. 1 made public. Truman dismissed caa 't become a candidate.

Bob MacArthur as the AmericanIj 3 has earned r-ij-irj I HOT-Q iln commander in the Far East, the general came to an "I never had any regrets about making that letter Martin said. "'I ed that Truman wanted I have always felt that MacArthur might have announced as a candidate if Taft jhad withdrawn from the race. Taft. of course, had no in- win aie and he almost did. More owners of low-priced cars are moving up to Olds than ever before! Martin, who said he alwavs faon by publicly auing Ms on how to win the war, contrary to Irtmans orders and poll- aes.

The final straw was when MacArthur wrote to a congress- dan. But Norris points out MacArthur fought general headquar- 1 he was a hero World War I in Europe. When Pershmg crossed him. Norris says, word "was gotten back to tad "MacArthur ffis Ren- ous With History." He said Communists and jneir dupes tound an alh in we Europe-first chque in the war in Korea" said and so I a to Mac "It is tony," the 79-year-old Arthur asking for Ms views" Icongressman continued. UlUr Ior tArQan never mentioned that let- Martin, a Republican con- ter to me at all.

And I never gressman from Massachusetts- said a word about it either. I felt iet siee do It was a copy of a speech byj a Roman general, Lucius Clem- 1 iilus Paulus, replying to his mil-; itary critics in 168 C. The said in general "in everv wav and Ms efforts" against the 5 enemy." In 1932 MacArthur was widely CO on Corregidor Year too Late WASHINGTON (AP) State rendered Department officials disclosed today that in 1962 it was proposed to Gen. Douglas Mac- AVthur that after his death he be buried at the highest point of Corregidor Island. A memoria' Is to be raised there--where MacArthur's Philippine defenders finally sur- to the Japanese in --to the dead of the Pacific fighting World War JH.

MacArthur's advisers told the State Department that the general had made a commitment the year before to be buried at the MacArthur Memorial site in Norfolk, where he will be laid to rest Saturday. In the replv, Mac- Arthur wrote Martin, There is Martin said he nrst me Mac no substitute for victory." and (Arthur nen the 6 61 1 was he disagreed with President, Army chief of staff Harry S. Truman's decision to seari 1930s Th 3ate Ma limit the war to Korea itself andi oren Guardia of New to leave enemy bases in Com- a Republican congressman munist China alone. brougnt them together. "I had asked him for his views, and his reply did not say! that his views were confidential, but I was not sure what to Martin said.

"I walked the block several times before I finally made up my mind. I decided that if he did not want his views known he would have said so" Martin, in the midst of a House debate on the Korean War in April 1951, released the "if therefore, anyone thinks' himself qualified to give advice respecting the war which I arn conducting, which may prove 1 advantageous to the public, nun not refuse his assistance tOj the state, but let him come with i me to Macedonia. ''Mavor La Guardia had apartment, and he liked to chowder, and one day, he said to me, 'Come on over and have some chowder with General Martin recalled. "We saw each other from time to time. I would not say we were intimates.

But we were friends. In 1952, I went to see him and suggested that he become a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. "He shall be furnished with a. a horse, a tent; even his! frayed. "But if he thinks this too much trouble and prefer? the repose of a city life to the tools of war, let him not, on land, assume the office of a pilot" Underneath was the inked inscription "Arnen!" and the signature, "Douglas MacArthur." "He sent tiiis to me two years ago," Martin said.

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