Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial cartoonist for the old New York Sun and, ultimately, for Hearst's New York Journal-American. The assignment did not suit him, although he showed occasional flashes of style. One of his best cartoons, done in 1950 after the Russians had accused the U.S. of starting the Korean war, was deliberately run upside down. It was a portrait of Stalin exhibiting a scroll of poetry...
Both Lucas and Considine reported that MacArthur was disappointed in Dwight Eisenhower, whom he described as "once a man of integrity." General George Marshall, who was Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, was "the errand boy of the State Department." General Matthew Ridgway, who took over command of United Nations forces after MacArthur's dismissal, was a "chameleon," who "did a complete flip-flop in 24 hours" when he discovered that Washington opposed Mac-Arthur's war strategy. General Maxwell Taylor was "an ambitious man who will never do anything to jeopardize his career...
...Lucas account, MacArthur had a grudging respect for Harry Truman. The President had been in Inde pendence, Mo., when the Korean War started, recalled MacArthur. Truman "reacted instinctively, like the gutter fighter he is-and you've got to admire him." But once Truman got back to Washington, "Dean Acheson brought him back under control." All in all, MacArthur said, Truman was "a man of raw courage and guts-the little bastard honestly believes he is a patriot...
Plan for Victory. To both Lucas and Considine, MacArthur disclosed a plan for winning the Korean War-a plan that the "Anglo-Saxonphiles" stubbornly and successfully opposed. "I could have won the war in Korea in a maxi mum of ten days," he told Considine, "with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so-called truce period, and it would have altered the course of history." The plan called for an air strike with "between 30 and 50" atomic bombs just north of the Yalu River (sec map). This would have wiped out the enemy's air capability...
...publicly discussed as early as 1951. Tennessee's Democratic Sen ator Albert Gore, then a Congressman and member of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, had read a study of radiological warfare, issued a statement suggesting that the U.S. could sow a sanitized zone of radioactive material across the Korean neck. Says he today: "It was thoroughly panned by scientific editorial writers." In any event, explains University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez, MacArthur was in error, since the half-life of radioactive cobalt is only 5.25 years, and the material could not be distributed from trucks. Says Alvarez: "You would...