Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent Communist reinforcements from pouring down over the Yalu, MacArthur wanted to lay down a five-mile-wide belt of radioactive co balt at the border. Said he: "It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes. It has an active life of between 60 and 120 years. For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north. The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt...
...that, MacArthur was reflecting an idea that was 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...
Finally, wrote Considine, General MacArthur was grieved because, in 1952, President-Elect Eisenhower refused to accept a MacArthur plan to end the entire cold war. Precisely what the plan was, MacArthur did not disclose to Considine. One version of the plan came from South Carolina's Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who said last week that he heard it ex plained by MacArthur in 1956. Mac-Arthur, said Dorn, urged Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles to threaten Rus sia with complete rearmament of Germany and Japan, "possibly including nuclear power," unless Russia agreed to live...
...Goodbye." Whatever the plan, Mac-Arthur tried it on Ike, who seemed to like the idea. But, MacArthur told Considine, it was dashed by the "cool, calculating voice of the lawyer"-John Foster Dulles. MacArthur pleaded with Ike, declared that he had the "greatest opportunity for good since the birth of Jesus Christ, the power to make the greatest impression since the Crucifixion. You cannot fail to be remembered in history as a messiah. Yours is a messianic mission. Believe me! Your name will be called blessed." When Ike, at Dulles' urging, turned him down, Mac-Arthur said: "Goodbye...
...Lucas and Considine reports aroused predictable responses. The British denied all accusations of perfidy. Truman and Eisenhower refused to comment. A longtime MacArthur aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, called Lucas' piece mostly "fantasy" and "fictional" nonsense. Lucas replied by calling Whitney a "liar...