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...General's Views. One question on which the Miller letters threw no light was whether General MacArthur is an isolationist. This question was of serious concern since much of his support has come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General...
...interviewers have been admitted in recent months to the walnut-paneled office of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. But last week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
Childs found the Colonel's political views "orthodox . . . [he was] for any good [Republican] who can be elected." (Colonel McCormick again denied reports that he had put up sizable sums for a MacArthur-for-President movement.) Childs summed up: "The influence of the Tribune in politics is largely negative. [The Colonel] shows no signs of being an ogre. It is silly to build him into a super-Führer. To find security he is marching backward into the past...
Died. Samuel Emory Thomason, 61, publisher of Chicago's lusty New Dealish tabloid Daily Times and the Tampa Tribune; of a heart attack; in Tampa, Fla. An old college friend of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could...
...wise Anne O'Hare McCormick, foreign affairs expert, who has a special talent for the examination of Anglo-American relations, came in on the same beam...