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...surface, the news that shook the world was just as clear and final as the headlines: TRUMAN FIRES MAC ARTHUR. But for the U.S. and the rest of the West, the importance of the act lay not in the rights & wrongs of military discipline or executive authority; it lay in the issue on which two men had split...
...that is so why then is General Mac-Arthur vilified? Because the Communists want him vilified. They are leading all sorts of people into their campaign...
...Russians," according to Mac- Leish, "are motivated too much by self-interest to consider war. It would be a terribly costly business." Political and social infiltration, he believes, will be their chief methods of encroachment in the near future...
Pearl River, N.Y. is only 22 miles from Times Square, but it is fully as quiet-or was until last week-as Moccasin, Mont., Husband, Pa., or Clam, Va. Last week, as everyone in Pearl River will remember ("You can say that again, Mac")-as everyone in Pearl River will remember, Frank Perkins, a peaceful, pippin-faced youth of 21, went crow-hunting along the brackish banks of the Hackensack River...
Eighth Army's late commander, General Walton ("Johnny") Walker, was a steady, courageous battle leader who was inclined to flounder in staff work and had 11ttle imagination. After the Chinese Communists smashed into North Korea, neither Walker's starched generalship nor the remote-control direction of Douglas Mac-Arthur's staff in Tokyo could give the Army the direction it needed. Ridgway can. Omar Bradley called him "one of those tremendously valuable Army officers who are both outstanding commanders and amazingly competent staff officers. He can plan an action and he can execute...