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MACARTHUR 1941-1951 (441 pp.)-Major General Charles A. Willoughby & John Chamberlain - McGraw-Hill...
...commander, has already written exuberantly but superficially of The Mac Arthur I Know. Currently General Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's adviser and military aide from old Australia days, is cranking up an authoritative memoir for publication next year. Now, with the expert help of Author-Critic John Chamberlain, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, 62, one of the original "Bataan boys," tells of the ten years he served as MacArthur...
...that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that MacArthur was right. Authors Willoughby and Chamberlain have produced no new documents or arguments to forward his case. But this well-phrased, ardent book can be taken as a medium-sized monument to a monumental personality...
...being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England got rid of that awful Chamberlain yet?' In the ensuing astonishment someone is bound to ask, "What! Haven't you been across?" It is now that you apply the clincher, the beauty of this ploy being the two possible routes of denouement...
...spent his life chasing women; he kept out of the home and let his wife "do anything she liked." What she liked, according to Magarshack, was to make her household resemble the Czarist government as closely as possible. She gave her serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead and either drowned them at birth...