Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between conferences with staff officers, intelligence briefing on the disastrous China situation and talks with Japanese politicians, General MacArthur occasionally finds time to receive a visitor from the States. On these occasions, MacArthur speaks with sweeping eloquence about the great U.S. experiment in Japan. The gist of his discourse...
...visitor last week described an audience with MacArthur: "The performance was less exalted than I had expected. He has an avuncular sort of friendliness and at the same time maintains the dignity of age and position. I cannot imagine another U.S. general lowering his voice and, staring musingly into the distance, saying: We may fail here, but all men who truly have religion in their hearts must believe that we can succeed, must stand with respect before the miracle of what has happened in Japan...
Although police have checked with occultists over the weekend, no definite lead has been brought to light on the marauder who escaped three resident students in a confused brawl. Investigation is still under way in an attempt to pin down the visitor through the coat ripped from his back in the struggle...
Meanwhile, the students' wives had called police, who searched the neighborhood for the midnight visitor, but could not find...
...have a visitor." Heyneman announced...