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MacArthur has devoted a lifetime to training for military leadership. He now occupies the job he was trained for. His job is a long way from being satisfactorily concluded, and he would be the first to concede that defending Bataan and then winning a preliminary victory in New Guinea have not earned him promotion to an office he is unqualified by experience to handle...
...Robert Sherrod, who spent seven critical months last year with General MacArthur's men in Australia and New Guinea, has flown off to the front again-this time to the Aleutians. He arrived at U.S. Aleutian Headquarters just in time to cover the final round of the battle for Attu-and report how U.S. soldiers there were prying out the last Jap snipers with bayonets and blasting out the few remaining Jap machine gunners...
...World War II has tended to lengthen, rather than shorten, the training period necessary to make an army. Of all the U.S. Army's infantry divisions (more than 70, and climbing toward 100 at last published reports), not more than seven have had battle experience in Africa, New Guinea, the Solomons or the Aleutians...
Students who refused to register for the draft drew his rebuke, also the warning that Union would not become "a haven for draft dodgers." No admirer of Communism (he said Union could not be made "the guinea pig for some future Soviet"), he admires the Russian people enough to be vice president of Russian War Relief. Through his efforts, Union's board last year elected a Negro minister to membership, first major U.S. seminary...
...course Band Leader Rossi found himself in New Guinea, later on Guadalcanal, where he and his bandsmen made little music but had plenty of chance to get shot at while carrying stretchers and hauling supplies between foxholes. Sixty-year-old Sergeant Rossi stood up as well as any under the pounding, until a skin disease incapacitated him. Last week he was back in the States, leading Army band concerts between treatments at a North Carolina hospital...