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...Manhattan newsmen-covering General Douglas MacArthur at the Waldorf-Astoria have had a dull time. They have seen little of MacArthur himself, gotten no interviews, spoken only with his spokesman, Major General Courtney Whitney...
From MacArthur's headquarters at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel came a sharp rebuttal from Major General Courtney Whitney: "It had been the original policy agreed upon by everyone that, if possible, Korean troops should be utilized to occupy the area immediately south of the Yalu once that area was secured by our forces. As the ferocity of the campaign increased, however, it became impossible to accomplish the objective of clearing North Korea of enemy forces without the maximum employment of all our forces. The comparatively light South Koreans who first reached the Yalu area were destroyed...
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...
...Change, Really. The Administration was finding its wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready...
During MacArthur's five days of retreat in Manhattan, coveys of cops, MPs and hotel dicks turned both press and public aside. Special switchboard arrangements diverted almost all of his 3,000-odd daily telephone calls. His zealous military secretary, Major General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, carried his word to Manhattan's clamoring reporters...