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...piece of evidence was General Douglas Mac Arthur's plain-spoken statements to the U.S. press. Before he cleared the air, he had set the State and War Departments by the ears with an offhand announcement that he would soon need only 200,000 troops in Japan (he had previously estimated 500,000, then 400,000). State's overly sensitive Acting Secretary Dean Acheson tartly announced that policy was being made in Washington, not in Tokyo. Much of the U.S. press and many a citizen jumped to the unwarranted conclusion that MacArthur was for a quick & easy occupation...
...Policy. But the clincher came from the White House with publication of President Truman's directive to Mac-Arthur, sent to him before he set foot in Japan. Its salient features...
...General Smiles. General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur was a different man. As he stepped from his transport plane Bataan his sternly sculptured features relaxed in an easy smile. The austere man who used to forget faces called first names, clasped hands, and complimented the military band. Later he dined with his junior officers; he had not done so since...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...
...story: an unhappy 4-F (Fred Mac-Murray) is jilted by a toothsome, promiscuous USOgress (June Haver) who at tempts to demonstrate, by song and cumbrous dance routines, that morale means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...