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...Maurer, China is the clue to the Orient, and Confucius and Lao-tse are the clues to China. From Confucius stem China's social virtues: family piety, loyalty; from Lao-tse her moral values: Taoism, the philosophy of "Do Nothing," don't fuss, let nature take its course. It was Lao-tse who inspired such axioms as "There are thirty-six ways of meeting a dilemma and the best of them is to run away." To an Oriental, this represented the wisdom of the bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance...
...responsibility for the firing. He exonerated his Secretary of State from Republican charges that Acheson was the real man. It was Acheson who had at first opposed firing MacArthur. What were Acheson's reasons? Political-purely, said Truman with a grin. Acheson said it would stir up a fuss, said the President, and he was right...
Oddly enough, the report made almost no mention of Formosa, the question that had stirred up all the fuss. The transcript simply quoted Harry Truman as saying to the assembled staffs that he and the general had "talked fully about Formosa," and were "in complete agreement." Was that true? asked Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall. "The agreement," answered MacArthur, "was that both of us had dropped the question of discussing [Formosa] there at Wake Island, [or] at any other time...
...Daily Express, delighted with the fuss, invited him to come again some time...
Things As Usual. These were past errors; the error being made today was the ready-in-'53, no fuss-no strain philosophy. This failure of leadership ran higher than the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growled a Seattle lumberman: "As long as Harry does things as usual, then everybody else will do things as usual. Harry said there is no war on, so who's excited enough to go volunteer to chop down a tree for an Army barracks? Nobody, that...