Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least $100 million in outright military aid. To boot, the U.S. should dispatch to China "the best man that can be found"-say, General Douglas MacArthur (see below) or General Mark Clark...
...Late. Telling testimony came from Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop...
When Congress asked his advice on U.S. China policy, General Douglas MacArthur last week cabled from Tokyo...
...embark upon a general policy to bulwark the frontiers of freedom against the assaults of political despotism, one major frontier is no less important than another, and a decisive breach of any will inevitably threaten to engulf all. . . . Fragmentary decisions in disconnected sectors of the world will not bring an integrated solution...
...Major General Harry Vauqhan, 54, military aide and former World War I comrade of the President. The President greatly admires his smoking-car humor, keeps him around for laughs and as a general choreboy...