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Brigadier Gmeral carter w. Clarke 

HQ1 Southvutern Conwd 

APO 1.S, • Poataaster 

San Franc1aco 1 Calitornla 

Dear General Clarkea 

424 lorth Qeorp Muon Dri't'e 

Arlington 3, Virgllda 

23 April 19S2 

I can not tell you how mrry I was to haft miuacl you on your 

recant ahcrt visit. I called a couple of timls at Fort JV'er, where 

I was told you were 11tq1111i. but had no luck. 

It would have been Yery nice to have gottm together tor even a 

fn :minutes, to compare notes on how well each ot us ia standing up 

umer the blows ot time am the exigenciea ot lite umer the Damocrata. 

I 11111 not attapt to bring you up.to-date on "flf3 own atraira 

except to say that I •in better health than I have been tor a doze 

years in the put, am enjaying it imensel.71 and feel atrong enough to 

keep playing golt on that ziugged. ArlaJ•Nav;y Countl")' Club Course. 

Elizebeth de~rts these shores 1n a couple of daya tor a 3-month•' 

holiday in SV1turland1 Italy, am France, she haYing an itchy foot 

ani the cash to assuage the 1 tch. She wanted. me to come along but 

Vhat have those places to otter me that I have not seen elsewhere in 

'lllY travels? I sq to hell with itJ but it that is what she wants I am 

all for her spealing the money t.hat vq. I plan to havea3-mon1ihs' 

era ot quietude, to get 'lflT books and papers straightened out in rv atud7 

at hCllll81 an assurance which I have no doubt will be entertained b7 you 

With 1011a aceptici•• 

I guaas you know about Gene Elder•s retirement. The young men in 

tbe Signal Corpa are dropping by the wa;rs:kle fast, leaYing old-timer• 

lilce ayaelt still going •Wong and thumbing noaea at Old Man Time. 

Maybe it is the work I have b•n doing that provides the mental vi tam1na 

conduoiYe to a maintmance ot interest in lite. 

I would love to hear fro• you - especially your reactioas am 

private thwght1 in ream to the subj•t. of your recent viait. 

With moat col'dial greeting• to Jeeaie and you, I m, 

Sincerel3, 

wnJ.IAM F. FRI!JHR 

@'pproved for Release by NSA on 03-25-2014 pursuantto E.O. 1352a 
Dear Friedman: 

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l-IEADQUARTERS 

SOUTHWESTERN COMMAND 

Office of t:he Commanding General 

APO 15 c/o Post:mast:er 

San Francisco, California 

16 April 19.51 

My apologies to you for not answering your last letter - if I did 

so fail. My memory is that I wrote you the day I received your last 

one, but since I keep no copies I am not sure. 

I do know Ca.nine. I am wondering. Akin will probably take him 

for a cleaning. 

At present I am too depressed over this MacArthur deal to think 

clearly. I am wondering what sardonic turn of mind thought up the idea 

of firing MacArthur on the ninth anniversary of the fall of Bataan. I 

also am completely puzzled over why it was done at this time. There is 

no doubt whatsoever that the President has every legal right. to take the 

action he did, but it is still one hell of a way to treat a man of MacArthur's stature, prestige, and the hold.er of two Medals of Honor. 

-r f~el -#..t 

PersonallyA for the good of our nation and from a long range point 

of view it is possibly the best thing that could have happened1 and I am 

not at all sure but what MacArthur himself did not cook this up, hoping 

for just the result which happened. I kn01'v for a fact that he has been 

wanting to quit for a long time; that his wife has been hBmmering at him 

to turn in his suit, return to the States and put the boy in an American 

school; that he· fully realizes that with the consummation of the Peace 

Treaty his usefulness will be at an end. It would therefore have been 

somewhat of an anti-climax for him to have just "folded •his tent and 

silently stolen awa.yt'. In this way he not only goes out in a blaze· of 

glory and publicity, but also focuses the attention of the entire nation 

on the Y<'ar East. 

I am reliably informed that there is a da'Wlling·realization in foggy 

bottom of the importance of the Orient and of the truth regarding the 

over-all situation out here; also, that there is a definite lessening of 

the Europe First pressure. If my report is accurate, then before any action could be taken they naturally had to get rid of MacArthur because 

those in the driver's seat would never, in my opinion, modify their policy 

so long as ~cArthur remained out here. On the other hand, if a deal is 

to be made behind the scenes which will cast Formosa adrift or even deal 

it into the maw of the Red Emperor and admit him to the United Ma"tions, 

then more than ever lvas it necessary to fire 'll~cArthur. Again I repeat, 

! am puzzled at why they seized upon MacArthur 1 s letter to ?Jartin as the 

pretext for yanld.ng MacArthur's scalp. 
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I suppose you read Hanson Baldwin's assessment of MacArthur in the 

New York Times and Rceymond Uoley•s essay on the Korean situation. Baldvdn, along with many other commentators and columnists, makes the point 

that MacArthur's sound-off failed to observe the fine line between the 

military and the political. They are right. I agree with them all, but 

for a vecy different reason: the 11 fine line" is so da,mn fine that it 

does not exist. Does any informed person really think that a canma.nder 

of MacArthur's eminence, dealing with the status of affairs in Korea, can 

perform. the impossible feat of separating the "military" from the "political" aspects? What such a personage says on any subject whatsoever must 

be political: what else? -

Certainly, I accept the view that an outpost affray or a "police action" may have no political implications whatever, but I certainly believe 

that battles., campaigns, and finally, a war such as Korean incident has 

developed into progressively show more of the "political" and less of the 

"military" element until we finally reach a problem of such ·complexity 

that it would take such a philosopher as the second officer of state in 

old Tibet (he was called, indeed, I believe, the "metaphysician-in-chief11 ) 

to separate the two. As Malinowski, the Polish geni'us, once declared, 

speaking of space and time, there no longer existed space by itself and 

time by itself, only a blend of the two -- an assertion now generally accepted by most philosophers and scientists. · 

Ray Meley professes to a naive faith that the United States will not 

accept a negotiated peace a la UN. NUTSJ Our illustrious striped pants, 

hands-on hips boys are peeing down one leg then the other to get such a 

negotiated peace, thereby delivering the Orient to the Commies - their 

studied policy, anyway. As if in direct reply to 'Moley, Foreign Secretary 

Herbert Morrison announced: "this is the psychological moment to end the 

Korean fighting". He called on the Chinese Reds to "cast aside the false 

nationalism (sic) which has wrecked so many countries", and added, what I 

am positive the Commies are just waiting to hear, that the "way to happiness is through co-operation". 

Then old pouter pigeon Warren Austin parroted Morrison by saying that 

"now is the psychological time to seen an end to the fighting". But, he 

-went on, by that he did not mean "surrender or the admission o:f the Chinese 

Communists into the United Nations with"blood;y hand8 11 • Why in hell those 

last three qualifying words? Would he admit them if they could in some 

manner purge those of them with ''bloody hands", or in some fashion wash 

their sins away to the satisfaction of the assembled delegates, if not to 

the satisfaction of the parents of those boys who have perished so miserably on those God-forsaken Korean hillsides? 

I'd say that now is the psychological time for Morrison, Austin and 

many others to keep their damn mouths shut; and for the UN to put up, or 

itself, shut up. 

Do we not have any true Americans left? Why in hell do we tolerate 

old Richard Crossma.n•s bleating to the effect that if President Truman 

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and the State Department do not have the courage to silence General MacArthur "it is up to Britain to intervene"? Shades of Patrick HenryS 

To what low national prestige have 110 fallen? Will Americans submit to 

insults of this nature? 

With kindest regards and all good wishes, I am 

Sincerely, 

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Dear General Clarke: 

ID:A70092 -

424 North Geol :Mason Drive 

Arlington 3, Virginia 

10 April 1951 

You awe me a letter but come hom.e soon and all will be rorgiven. 

In rq laat one I told 70U I•d check on certain atatementa in 

"Operation C1cero11 am would report. I checked with the .fountain head of 

knowledge on the point in question and they "can throw very little light 

on the matter. 'V~e o.gree that there appeara to be no evidence • • • to 

substantiate this story. , •• ~·e have discussed this matter with the 

Foreign Ottice, and it ia considered unlikely •••• 11 'lbere was a bit. more 

in the letter but I aan•t uae it here. That bit might indicate a poaai- bilitq that one system waa read but there is no evidence either to support 

or contradict the posaibility. 

It ia probably no nen to J"OU that SBA. on retirement - even before - began working on a civilian baaia at CIA. I umeratand he will be 

directly under Smith. Interesting possibilities - and riuch speculation 

in AFSA as to those possibilities, · 

Bets here are on Guest to replace ;~ck. no you know General Canine? 

Joe Wenger says he's jwst about fed up and wants to move elser.here. He's 

having hi1S troubles with residuals - all three or them, and I can•t blame 

him much for feeling st,mied. 

'l'he most dispassionate account or Pearl Harbor that I•ve 7et read 

is b.r Walter M1111a in "This is Pearl", published about 2t ;years ago, If' 

70U•ve not read it, do so. '!he most prolix and quite a bit biased account 

is Charles Beard's - I•m still wading through that one. Herbert Fels• 

ttRoad to Pearl Harbor" is excellent, 

It may be that D'JT last letter was so prolix that you tossed it in the 

waste basket, so this one is shorter. 

!!ow a.re Stub and Jessie? And you? 

,\11 of. us well. DatightP.r is about to be. marri~:l. Son wants to - soon aa he ha.s the ability to support another persein. I'm better than 

I•ve been for years, and, despite the t~nseness of the times ~nd certain 

frustrations, am glad to be here. 

V'ith best. regarda 5 I am, 

Brig. Gen. Carter~·-. Clarke 

Hdq. Southwestern Command 

APO 15, c/o Postmaster 

San Franciaoo, Calit'ornia 

Sincerely your•. 
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Dear General Clarke: 

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424 ~orth George l!ason ~rive 

Arlington :.3, Virginia. 

29 December 1950 

Too !"..any days ha.ve passed .-since I received yours 0£ 4 December 

and I can only plead the pressure of work and the intervening holidays - though what there is tc celebrate or wave banners about nowadays is 

problematical, unless I take into consideration, so far A.s concerns m:r 

awn situation, the fact that ~ psychic health, compared to its state a 

75ar ago, shows a great improver.:.ent, which is something that anyorie ca.n 

be thankful about these dff1'S1 provided he also has a warm place to sleep 

and at least one good meal per da7, which I have and am thanktul for, 

besides havir.g a nice wife and two fine children all in good health and 

involving no drag on the coIIJ1T1.unity or me. 

!laving taken out a f'ew seconds to catch JD7 breath, I will 

J>l"'OCccd to answer your lC>tter. Its contents 'tvere most interesting, and, 

in spots, quite amusing. 

If, on the da7 ;you wrote, the situation in Korea seemed to be 

despe:rate, I think you will agree that it now is no better. We have 

been maneuvered into a.position rhich appears at the moment to present. 

no good possibilities for extrication with sound epidermis. I am 

reminded here o:t' an ancient Poman warrior \'Tho got himsel:r into a eomewha t a.L-:d.lar situation and sent a Topaec dispatch in cipher to his home 

o!'fice saying substantiallT: "All is lost. i'l.ndarua ia killed. '!he 

soldiers \"l&nt food. We can neither get hence nor stay longer here." 

That was some 2000 years ago and conditions haven't changed much. 

I got hold or a copy of "The Grand Al Uance11 and checked vtha.t 

Churchill says about Pearl Harbor. You will note that he is silent as 

a. tomb i:l.bout their mm accompliahmente a.a 11magicians 11 , uhich is OK 'With 

me; but h~ doubtless felt that he could tell about our accomplieh.-:ients 

because our various P.H. investigations let practical.17 all the felines 

out of the suitcase• in which we tried to keep them. Somewhere else in 

the same volwne he pays tribute to the strength or u. s. democrac;y 

which could continue to stand up under the effects or such disclosures 

of secret operations. I t:dnk that his statement aa to delays of two 

or three days r·:unt, Wlder the circumstances I wrote 7ou, be interpreted 

as delays in gett.iri_g the raw material to them, because, in many ca.sea, 

they were not in a position to get it theru!3elves and we had to send it 

to them. I th.ink he has forgotten that element, or l1la7be he never knew 

or it. 
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As to 11 0p~ration Cicero"• ! let only six • hours or so pass before 

getting hold of a c:orr:r. You are correct in 7our having 11no recollection 

ot SJ171iliing turning up as a result or Ticom which vrould substantiate" the 

statements re CicDro•a help in breaking codes. But I have referred the 

matter to our fricr..da and will have a first hand report soon. (I•m sure 

they haven•t b:eert holding out on us in this instance because in tar more 

serious ones t~1ey held back nothing.) !.~ impression o:f the book as a 

whole is th~t th-:J o.uthcr is to be congratulated more on his writing a 

pretty good sto::-y than en his strict .:i.dherence to the truth. 

I an sad to learn that you have given up all hope or our ever 

having an effective J.ntelli~-nce Service. I'll admit the situation is 

bad but while there•s life thcre•s hope, and I think one or these days 

there's going to be some fireworks, ~i.th emphasis on the present participle 

or the verb fire. I suppose you ea.~ where .t'inalq and at last Al'Sll1' is 

going to h.:J.ve a, per.r.ianent corps of G-2•ers - all five, or six ot them! 

As for our deficiencies in that field, you arc blaming the wrong people,, 

I think, Shortly a:f.'ter Y.orea started, I got hot under the collar and 

l'rrot!• a paper - tv"·.ich I then f'iled in my special file 'With the asbestos 

lining. Its title was: "Strike 'l.'.\"O ! 11 I think ;rou' ll get the implications. 

11'!'".?..:i wa.s "Strike One!" "Korea" wao "Strike Two!" - "?" "Strike Three!n 

and we •re out, God forbid. To t•'ind ~'Us paragraph up, I'll say that J'OU 

ought to be ashamed or yourself to say "Nevertheless, I am, personalq, 

vecy glnd that I am out of the racket. 11 I serve notice on ;you herewith 

2.nd herein tho.t I shall do rq very best to get you back in and quick. '!he 

racket could become a real business Yd.th you as the chief ot the concern. 

Re the imperninr. change in CSigO, I had it trom a pretty 

reliable source only a couple of days ago that the proposition will 

probably be advanced that SP,A be retired, im:nediatelY" recalled. to active 

duty, and reassigned. as CSigO. Kot a bad idea, I think. 

A long time ago, Yi.ilen you '·rore at Leavenworth, the school not 

the pen, Y:iu t:::""ote a piece fo!' Sateirepos1; or for King Featnres, entitled 

"Stalking cnecy radio stations." Th.'3 mss. turned up recently and. was 

given to me as a souvenir to add to 0:1 historical collection of profitless prognostications or prominent pf.rsonages. For a consideration I 

would let you sec.> a copy now, for I'm sure you destroyed yours long ago. 

v:e htlve heard no news re St.ub and hope that all is well with him 

and that he is buying no real estate in Korea. What can you tell me 

about him? 

!!cw \;ell do :rou know Beadle? Does he know you &nd if so how 

favorably? Saue questions re Craig. Let me know. 

Things are rocking along here and I am reasonably content with 

my- own con1.~.tion but not with that of others, bot.h animate and inanimate. 

As you perhaps kn.cwt, Peterson is going to ochool, signing out here about 

the Sth of J:.muary. J.fa.son is poir.g to b'3 a. sailor once again, soonJ we 

should htivc aonc ~r:hald. suits around but we don•t. IQnn was made a B.G. 

this yreek ~md is trading seats with Hetherington, '!be old whcelhorsos 

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such as Friedman, Rowlett, Sinkov, and Kullback are still treading the 

mill. I am going down to J~ell early February tC' repeat a talk I 

gave before the Comr.nurl.cations-Flectronics Stai'! Scheel. :'robabl.y go 

on to Brooks to give a talk thi:>re. ft.Ji:. becoming a public speaker in 

private. You c3n havo p1irt of th'J f·1000 fee I get .for each per .. "'ormance, 

say 10%. 

'::e rc.cei ved a very nice Christua.s crued from Jessie and you,, for 

which we thank you. I•ve gotten old a.rld somewhat i'ed up ith Christ.ma.a 

shenanigans of peace and good will when thore is no peace :md good will, 

so have given up sonding ~ards but nevertheless I hope ray greetings to 

you both herein and herewith will serve to convey to you tlwt I think of 

you fre 1?,Uentl.y', favorabl7, fretfully (because of your abacnce fron tho 

scene), and fondly (be~ause I want you back). 

•··i th all best wishes to you ~nd yours !or a be1;ter !fow Year, 

Frig. Gen. Ca1•ter ;·;. Clarke, 

Hdq. Southwestern CQ'?WU'ld, 

APO 15, c/o Postr.m.ster, 

San Francisco, California. 

Sinaerell" 70urs, 

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Dear Friedman:-

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SOUT:;~~~~;;~;:MAND • 

Office of the Commanding General 

APO 15 c/o Postmaster 

San Francisco, California 

At Home. Monday Night, 4 December 1950. 

By a strange quirk or fate your letter of 25 November came today, 

the ninth anniversary of the transmis~ion of the famous Winds Message which 

creEtted such havoc by virtue of its being ignored. I am wondering just what 

significant piece of intelligence is being ignored back there today, which will 

have even m~ fateful consequences for our nation. 

As I •Tite this tre are getting our teeth kicked down our tender 

throats by those "Agrarian Reformers" who were so beloved by Faulty Memory Marshall, 

His Excellencyi Lord Acheson, Traitor Boy Hiss, Slimy Owen Lattimore, and il the 

mBilBz abominab e Comr.ie Loving Degenerates who slither in and out of that llmlaesexμal lair across the river. 

The situation in Korea is desperate, indeed. I do not believe that, 

unless an appeasement deal is made, tJaldl we can hold our forces over there. In 

fact, now that we have ma.de the gesture, I think we should abandon Korea just as 

the British did Crete, withdraw back to Japan, save our seed corn, rearm «ppan 

and prepare ourselves for our final fight far survbal as a nation. I am thoroughly convinced that the Japanese homeland is the true.target of Russia. 

Many thanks for your information regarding Rosen et al. I can see, 

readily enough, why old Churchill tried to protect himself and his people for he 

knows,as do you and I,what a hell of a stink would be stirred up in America if he 

admitted that he knew Pearl Harbor was coming s.nd failed to notify old FDR. 

Now, may I impose on your good ns.ture to ask for more information? 

Have you read "Operation Cicero" by L. c. Moyzisch, published by Coward-McCann? 

If not, as Al McCormack used to say to me: 8Don•t live more than five minutes 

before getting it and reading it". In that book the author makes a number of 

statements to the effect that the documents provided. the German!'oreign Office by 

Cicero helped break important British codes. I have no recollection or anything 

turning up as a re811lt of Ticom which would substaatiate that statement. How about 

it? Did they hold out on us? If they did we h6.ve one more grievance against 

them. Also, we should keep our lightning reds higher than ever in this war, if 

they really come in and fight. 

I enjoyed Y'CllJr comments on the situation back there. I fully 

appreciate your hesitancy as letters do go astray. I am fairly well informed on 

what goes on back there and, although I am completely out of the picture, I am 

distressed aver the turn or· events.These jurisdictional squabbles and struggles 

for personal prestige, if not stopped, will ultimately result in blowing your 

security and destroying the effort. 

As i'or my own activities, I am working harder, both physically and 

mentally, than I ever have in my life. We are under quite a bit of stress here 

and if I read the signs aright we are going to catch hell in a big way when the 

evacuation from Korea starts. I have gained an experience I never expected to 

have in my wildest dreams. Whether or not I will ever make use of this experience 

in my army career is problematical. In fact, if Stub were not over here and in 

great danger I would have retired almost imir.ediately upon arrival. I hope, though, 

that by being over here I may be of some help and moral support to him and, maybe, 
make some contribution to the war ef~ 1'~ ).liJ'() @'8'~ War III is now on us 

I suppose I shall stay on and do what I can. 

I h~ve given up all hope of the United Stat~s ever having an 

Intelligence Service.The ·screwball Donovan influence cannot, in my opinion, be er~dicated. or no one in bistoey can it be more aptly said, than or old FDR: 

"The evil that men do lives after them". Then the dead hand or ineptitude in 

high places continues to frustrate working level efforts within the services. 

I love intelligence work anf frankly feel that whatever talents, if any, I have 

are being wasted on this type of job, and at this time. Nevertheless, I am, 

personally, very glad that I am out of the racket. 

These Japanese are most amusing in their attempts to use the English 

language with fluency. Recently, Hanson Baldwin was here in Osaka and we gave him 

a cocktail party and dinner. One or the Japanese Prefectural Goverbors, on leaving, 

came up to thank me for inviting him to "meet so distinguished a visitor" etc, and 

then came out with this gem:"I am !!? happy, I am just right drunk." He was too. 

Then recent~ we bad a big fire over in Kyoto which destroyed the oldest, largest 

and most historic railroad station in Japan. For ~ while it looked like a l~rge 

-part -of-the -cl ty- would- go. - After the- fi"re· -was ·checked I -got a wtre from the 

Mayor saying: "Fire now under control; burning perfectly". 

Your rems.rks in re Reeder ~nd Lanahan were interesting. I agree 

with you that either would make a· good CSO, but what about J.!atejka? Is he not a 

candidate? And hOY1 about Lawton? I know nothing about the "political campaign" 

for the job, but a gonk from Washington who was out here recently and whom I saw 

in Tokyo told me that the appointment would be strictly a ~bite House "directed 

verdict". If my friend was correct, ;\..kin's recot:mendations to the boa.rd will 

have little weight. I am of the opinion that my friend knows Yibat he is talking 

about. 

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I have alreeidy written too much, and do not want to bore you. Again 

many thanks for your infomation. As old Osmun used to say: "Keep me informed". 

With kindest regards and all ;;rood wishes for you and yours. 

Sincerely, 

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Dear Friedman: 

• GiflnQ~11*~l~~P 92 • 

SOUTHWESTERN COMMAND 

Office of the Commanding General 

APO 15 c/o Postmaster 

San Francisco, California 

14 November 19'0 

I was recently rereading Churchill rs "Grand Alliance" and 

find that he dwells at great length on the Congressional inves- ____ j;j.gatio11. into the Pearl Harp9z: :tr~gegy. He ~so -~sqo1:!!'1!_e§_ a~ 

in my opinion, too great length on the "Magics". He goes on to 

say that he is not complaining but stating, as a matter of fact, 

that although he eventually received from the Americans the results from the •'Magic" effort, at least t"WO or three days delay 

occurred before· he got them and consequently the Americans always had better and more advanced information than he did. I 

am wondering about the accuracy of this statement. As a matter 

or fact, if my memory serves me correct it was in the fall, 

October I believe, of 1940 that, on orders of FDR, Rosen and 

others made their trip to London with certain equipment. Could 

I be wrong in this and it be 1941 instead of 1940? In either 

event, the British had available to them well in advance of Pearl 

Harbor all the information which we had at that time. Consequently I am wondering what the motives are in making such an inaccurate statement and in a place uh.ere he Would get such wide 

publicity. I would be glad. to hear from you on this and have mymemory refreshed. 

l(y spies tell me that all is not going well in the old haunts 

and that the inter-departmental jurisdictional squabbles are having a very deleterious effect on the effort. 

Kindest regards and all good wishes for both you and that 

very lovely little lady" "\'\ho Mrried you, I am · 

Sincerely, 

~. . . 
FRDll Miii CIR mu: 

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ry dear Frie&nan: 

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HEnDCUnffi'ERS 

SCUTILESTbRN co:..r.~.-.ND 

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c/o F~, San Frar.cisco, Calif. 

27 September 1950 

!.:any thanks indeed for your thoughtfulness in sending 1ne the 

clippines of Stub. hS a matter of fact, although I havs gotten several 

clippings, yours was the first one to reach me and I assure you that I t 

am dearly grate! UI. '.Je have not seen 5t1Ib sines ue have been out ·he1 e.~ 

but unless the Chinese coramies come in or the Ruskies thro-:·1 C:oT.;n air, 

this thing in Korea should be over, except for raoppine up, by 15 October. 

I have a very fasciru;:ting assignment here and I am g~ining an experience which I never expected to get even in iD3" nildest dreams. HS you 

probably kno,·• by no\111, we mounted up the i.ia.rines for the Inchon invasion 

here. The area of this cominand, which is comparable to that or a Corps 

Area of the old days rather than the Service Coi:.i: .. and, has besn extandeci 

and the scope of the responsibilities e~cpa11ded co;.1siderably. In a fe;;J 

dc.ys I ~ mor.~ .. ng my headquarters from Kobe to Osa:.Ca Yihere the ::olTu:::.and 

post, Southwestern Command, ·nill be opened 'l.:ith hPO 15. ,jhen I liia.s in 

Tokyo last Heek I asked ther.1 why they didn't call this the Southern Command and th~~ said that there vias nothing south of 'I'o~-cyo except watar 

and if I ·wanted to comH·.and ·:.he whales to go to it. I 'c.hen as!ted them 

if I ua.s to be known as the Southwestern Command, •,ihy in hell I coulC. 

not have my head<i_uartars in lil Paso; they did not think that was funny 

at all. 

~:ill sign off no·;J; the.nk you again for your thoughtfulness. flaase 

remember me to anyone i1!10 will ac1llit knowing ma. ,;ith kindest regards 

arid evecy good v.d.sh for you and yours, I am 

Sincerely,