Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main part of the program featured two very cheerful but only occasionally informative gentlemen from England, Mr. Ian MacArthur and Mr. Christopher Martin...
...MacArthur is a politician, and judging by last nights performance, a rather good one. A Conservative Member of Parliament, although technically a Scottish Unionist (it seems that neither the English nor the Scots want to recognize the fact that they have been under a common government since 1707). MacArthur is a tall man, somewhat bald, but very distinguished looking. He wears a typically British double-breasted suit and has a politican's ability to be both straightforward and devious at the same time and almost get away with...
...MacArthur and Martin discussed the question of the current revival of the Liberal party, once the distinguished alternate to Conservative governments, but reduced, in the past forty years, to a mere six seats in the House of Commons...
...brings alive the shock of the North Korean invasion, the "bugouts" of terrified G.I.s, the blare of Chinese bugles in the night, the quiet heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly described by S.L.A. Marshall in The River and the Gauntlet. But Leckie believes that...
...exams for West Point. He won appointment, graduated 68th in the 260-man class of 1930, later did graduate work at M.I.T. and Columbia. He served in Europe during World War II, after V-E day helped direct the dismantling of Hitler's war machine, later served under MacArthur as military governor for Hiroshima...