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·THE WASHINGTON POST 

Sunday, Dacemfler S, 1'50 

The Washington .Merry·Go·Bound 

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Opti111:ist Heads MacArthur's-·G-2 

By Dret11 Peor1on to use the Yugoalav aid program as the first test 

FOR a long time, criticism of General MacArthur of its own strength. The plan wu ta demand 

1n · the Pentagon Building was almost like • Acheson's resignation before voting aid to Yugoscriticizing George Washington. It wasn't done. lavla despite the fact Red Ai:mY troops are on 

However, some mild criticism I& now being ex-· the Yugoslav borders. ' 

pressed privately about MacArthur's faulty in· The Idea of bloeldnr the Jll'OPOlled 38·mDll•• - -

telligence which estimated there were few Chi· dollar loan developed In infonnal taUar )teiween 

nese units In North Korea on Thank&glvlD.g week· Nebraaka'a Ken Wllel'l'J; the Bepabllcan Boor 

end, and a few days later auddenly •discovered !eaaer; Vlrrlnia'B Bal'l'J Bnd, 1111 allent partner, 

200,000 Chinese troops. and Dick auuell of Georrla. maater airaterlat of 

This waa an error of dilutrous and major pro- , the Dbde-GOP (!Oall&i•. 

polilona. Fer it waa baaed on tllis lntemrenee After the heaVJ' Chlneae attacks in North Korea, ihat Washlndon auihorised MacArthur to ad• vance toward the Yalu River u qalcldJ 0 '.POI• however, the bloc .dec;ided io water down its 

sible. atrategy . to a grueling croaa-examination ' of 

The man Jn charge of MacArthur's Intelligence Acbesdn and hla policies In both the Appropria• 

is Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, 58, bOrn in Ger- tions and Foreign RelaUoria Committees. · 

many and whose original name was Tscbepe- "It wW take more. than George Mara.hall comm1 

Wiedenbach. After trouble over a Pru.asian duel up here and balling Acheaon out to g_et tbia. aid 

while In o:tBcen' school, he eacaped to thla eoun- through," remarked Senator B'1'd to a :friend. 

~!:~a!.°ok the name of his mother, who was an 'wmLE PRESIDENT TRUMAN ta1ka consist-

• . efitly abOut helping Little Busineaa, be operates Intensely devoted to MaeArtb~, Wlllougbby with ali:nost equal eonilateney to help Big Buaihas long been in charge of Mac's mtelllgence and iaesa. - , is one of the hero worshipers around hfm who 

tends to tell the "Supreme Commander" what be Latest mustratlon WU when the Civil Aenmadwant& to hear rather than the disagreeable facts. tics Board handed down a decision against Colonial Airlines, a small line, In favor of American Wiiloughby Is aueh a hero. wonhlper that he · Airlines, one of the '>iggeat Qperators in the coun.-

even. copies the garb of hla boa, brandilhes 8 • try to ily from New York to T ronto 

swqpr atlak, tacks a scarf Inside his open· ' 0 • 

throated shirt. and a few weeks before the Korean· After tbe CAB prepared Its prel.lminary report, aUaok Ian June dlmdaaed Korea "u not tmpor- it was sent to the White Bouse for approval. And 

tant." for several weeks Truman held it up. FinaJ.br, CAB .. . Chairman Delos Reutzel, who used to work for . You must keep ·your eye ?.n ~ Reds an!l American Airllnea, went over to the White Bouse, 

know what they will do next, '!illougbby ex- after which the President signed the order favorpounded to a Washington visitor. You can take Ing the company for which Reutzel on .i.-.a 

ft :Crom me, Iran Is the place to watch. An attack · . ce worvery aoon, old boy." . , NOTE-One good White Houae ;friend of Af'l'MH"-

Desplte this, MacArthur continued to put com- · lea" Airlines v Matt Cmaneii11, seen from time . plete faith in WWougbby's intelligence reports, to time in the cocktail lot.mgei toith American'• 

&011\etlmea with di11&Btrou1 results. ioveiv W:e president, Ca7'ltme Ri>berta. · For instance, it was· fawty Intelligence. which 

flrat caused United States troops to get embroiled THE SENATE McCARTBYITES are planning 

with the Cblneae. About the tbJrd week In Oeto- to -give Marg..ret Chue Smith, the efBctent Sena• 

ber, MacArthur reported there were few enemy tor from Maine, a political spanklng-becauae of 

troops between him and the North Korean border her forthright speech lut aummer crltlcizlnl .roe and asked permi&sion to send South Koreans tu.to McCarthy's "amear tactlca. n 

this area to maintain order. Ever alnae ahe wu elected In 19'8, Mn. Smith. 

Thoqh it had been prevlous17 acreed at 'Wake has been standlna' In line for an ualgnment to 

Jaland tllat there would be a 40-mlle neutral" Wile tb.e Senate Armed Senlcea Committee. Bavlq betwee~ U. N. forces and the Manchurian border, aened on boib the House Na•al Main and 

neverthelea Waahinrton · conaented to Mac- Anned Servlcea Committeu, ahe Is conaldered · thur'a request. South Korean WOOJl'I were then well-qualtfled for this committee. . 

aent north and w,:re piomptly overwhelmed bJ' an But because of her criticism of McCarthJ, his 

ene'IDJ' whieh MacArthur's lntelllcenee ild net cohorts In the Elgbty-eecond CoD11'888 plan tct 

think u:lsted. , block her from the Republican vacancy and offer 

Then MacArthur askec;. permission to send It to either. McCarthy or raucoua Blll Jenner of 

United States troops north to rescue them. Thia· Indiana. Jenner's aaalstant, Albion Beverage. was when the Chinese first crossed the Yalu ·ruver who once hung the Japaneae and Nazi flap from 

en mas&e and retaliated. hia pulpit, ran against Mrs. Smith In Maine and 

ORIGINAL STRATEGY of the anti-Acheson Is pulling baekatage wlrei to spike her appoint.- bloc before the Korean war looked so serloua was ment.