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...brief talk to the brass. Johnson recalled that "a friend of mine, observing some of my problems, recently sent me for my desk a quotation from a Roman consul back in 168 B.C." The consul was Lucius Aemilius Paulus, speaking to the Roman Senate, which had picked him to lead Rome's legions in the Macedonian war, then heaped criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated...
...Soldier Douglas MacArthur and former staff officers celebrated his 72nd birthday with a stag party. He admitted to a reporter that his former Commander in Chief Harry Truman had failed to note the day with a greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter, I will...
...General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over the Macedonians, had made a speech to his people. For years the speech had hung on War Department doors, gathering dust and flyspecks. Franklin Roosevelt brushed the flyspecks off Lucius Aemilius, and quoted...
Thus the President impaled his armchair critics on the parallel of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, dead 2,101 years. The toasting was well-timed. But still unsolved, by Lucius Aemilius Paulus or by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one great problem of a democracy in wartime: Where does legitimate criticism end and subversive criticism begin...
...Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...