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...Gallup poll, taken after General Mac-Arthur's speech, found 54% in favor of MacArthur's proposals to blockade the China coast, bomb Red Chinese bases in Manchuria, and help the Chinese Nationalists invade the mainland. Opposed...
...Communist New York Post and Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker both seized happily on the Gallup poll this week to bolster their anti-MacArthur positions. The poll, they trumpeted, proved that while most of the U.S. (62%) disapproved of MacArthur's firing, Americans certainly did not buy Mac-Arthur's policies of toughening the war against the Chinese Reds. They cited the fact that three out of every five who were interviewed, according to Gallup, thought that the U.S. should try harder to make peace with the Reds...
...both papers had reached their conclusions by leaving out a key question in the same Gallup poll taken before Mac-Arthur's congressional speech.* The pollsters had asked: "If the U.N. bombed Chinese cities and supply bases do you think it would bring the war in Korea to an end?" On this point 46% of the answers were "yes," 40% "no" (although 75% were against full-scale war with Red China). Despite the Post and Worker, the poll actually indicated that the majority of those who had given their opinion sided with MacArthur, not the Administration...
...Show in New York. TV's Mac-Arthur coverage in New York went as smoothly as in Washington. Manhattan's WPIX stood by with spares ready to rush to the scene in case any of the pooled TV equipment broke down; none did. Teetering truckloads of newsreel cameramen were able to keep pace with the parade all along its route. TV's mobile units were tied to three strategic locations (Liberty Street & Broadway, Bowling Green, City Hall) by the umbilical cords of power lines plugged into convenient buildings. The MacArthur coverage showed that TVmen were learning...
...ahead with a movie based on the song, anyway. His picture, explained Duke, would be about "a fellow in a little town" who "makes a great -life in the Army and comes to the point where an old soldier never dies." Added the producer: "If he happens to resemble Mac-Arthur or Omar Bradley or Skinny Wainwright, it isn't intentional...