Word: ichi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in an office down the hall from MacArthur's own in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, pince-nezed Frank Lowe squiggled the last line of another long, hand-written report to the White House, locked up a couple of presidential letters, and flew off to visit the ist Marine Division in southern Korea. Nobody questioned his comings & goings: the two-star general was armed with a presidential letter that authorized him to go where he chose, read what he wanted, and report what he pleased (although he had no command authority...
...MacArthur has any subordinate who qualifies as his trusty right hand, it is Almond. At SCAP headquarters in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, the two men were in & out of each other's offices all day long. Almond geared his working time to the late hours and seven-day routine of the Supreme Commander. He represented MacArthur at most official social functions. The Chief of Staff became one of the most ardent MacArthur disciples. He looks on his superior as the 20th Century's outstanding military genius; he will not rank MacArthur for all time, "because...
...Inchon. Before the Korean war, Almond would drive home from his Dai Ichi building office for a light lunch. Then, weather permitting, he would take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...
Harry Truman did what not even Franklin Roosevelt had had the temerity to do. He ordered Douglas MacArthur to shut up. The President's summary order arrived in Tokyo shortly after midnight Monday morning. There, in his headquarters in the Dai Ichi building, General MacArthur made the only decision he could make. He silently saluted his commander in chief across 6,769 miles of land and ocean, and shut...
...senses the bonds which tie Lake Success to the Korean battlefront. The blue and white U.N. flag flies from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building; it flies also, with Korean and U.S. flags, in embattled South Korea. MacArthur carries on a cordial correspondence with U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, has periodic talks with Lie's personal representative, Colonel Alfred G. Katzin of South Africa, and on his last flying visit to Korea, called on U.N.'s Korean Commission in Pusan (which maintains telephone contact with Lake Success...