Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston papers yesterday claimed that MacArthur "was expected" in June. Bunker, a member of MacArthur's staff, said, however, that "previous engagements will prevent the general from showing...
...Bunker added that the general will appear in Boston sometime this summer, but the date was not certain...
There was some speculation yesterday that the University had asked the general to postpone his visit, possibly because his appearance might conflict with an already prepared speakers' list. Bunker stated some time ago that MacArthur "placed a high priority on his visit to Harvard...
Colonel Lawrence E. Bunker '26, a member of MacArthur's staff, had said then that MacArthur had been asked to attend the exercises if he were in Boston at the time...
MacArthur brushed the report aside. The release of the Wake Island memo had "about as much bearing on the problem of Korea today," said his spokesman, General Courtney Whitney, "as would a report on the military operations on Bunker Hill." MacArthur hadn't even known that "surreptitious" notes were taken. He had wanted some taken himself, but had been specifically told "that there would be no stenographic reports taken of the conference." Had he received any copies of the transcript? asked New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges during the hearings next day. He had been sent copies, MacArthur...