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...Order. Just before lunch Tuesday, Harry Truman again saw Marshall, decided with him that the time had come to act. He went to Blair House for lunch, took his usual nap, returned to the White House at 3 o'clock. He summoned Marshall, Bradley, Acheson and Averell Harriman to a final meeting, then told his staff to draw up MacArthur's firing orders -just as the afternoon papers bloomed with headlines from Tokyo: MACARTHUR DEMANDS FREER HAND...
...strong-minded General Douglas MacArthur had set himself firmly against the policy of Truman, of his Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and of the U.N. itself. Despite repeated efforts to silence him, he had spoken up defiantly and deliberately. As a soldier, Douglas MacArthur well knew that he was risking his military career. His bold pronouncements had alarmed U.S. allies, especially Britain. In Truman's view, this threatened the solidarity of the North Atlantic countries, and embarrassed Secretary Acheson in his own plans. Douglas MacArthur could not (and would not) compromise his views of what was right and necessary...
...promise to address a joint session of Congress. Just before noon, Martin wound up a conference with Senate and House G.O.P. brass in time to catch the hungry lunchtime headlines with terse talk of "the possibility of impeachments." The plural "impeachments" obviously meant both Harry Truman and Dean Acheson...
...headquarters only once, on the first day, but had good knowledge of what MacArthur was thinking all week long. Presumably his go-between with Tokyo was Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War when MacArthur was Chief of Staff, wartime ambassador to China and, since then, unbending foe of Dean Acheson and the Asia policies of the State Department...
...military policymakers (including Truman) toward a positive, active, hopeful, constructive policy of how to combat Communist aggression (see "The U.S. Gets a Policy"-TIME, Feb. 26). For weeks, newsmen have been hearing from the mouths of some of Truman's closest advisers that the passive policy of Dean Acheson ("wait until the dust settles" in Asia) was losing out. George Marshall himself was said to be getting very interested in new counter-measures against the Chinese Communists...