Evening star., 1951-04-22
The Riddle Of Macarthur
General Was Adored by Aides;
Many Were Very Close to Him
There Was No 'Gestopo' in Jopon, But
Word of Movements in Tokyo Got Around

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Army; Admiral C. T. JOY, the nav
commander: and two superb all
officers. 1t. Gen. George e. Strate.
meyer, boss Of FEAT (Far Eastern
Air Force). and the commander
Of the Fifth Air Force. Mai. Gen
Earle t"Pat") Partridge. one oi
the ablest and most attractive air.
men ] ever met.
Gen. Whitney, who is described
as Soldier statesman" in bio.
graphical material prepared BY
soap, was born in Maryland ir
1897. He is an exceptionally
shrewd lawyer. with a sharp
fluent mind. Before that he hae
been an Army officer. The Su.
preme Commander likes him sc
much because their minds just
meet" Gen. Macarthur never
has to ask or explain anything
twice: Gen. Whitney knows, as II
oy intuition. exactly what his mas
ter wants.
Former Newspaperman.
Gen. Marquat, the director OF
the economic life of Japan, is Sc,
He was born in st. Louis, and
brought UP in Seattle: his person
ality is cheerful. vigorous, and
modest. AS youngster he worked
as a reporter on the Seattle Times.
He told us that there is still print
er's ink in his veins, and that
they spoiled a good newspaper
man to make me a lousy officer"
He is far from being lousy off,
Ger. Gen. Marquat has been chief
OF SOAPS Economic and Scien-
tific Section since 1945.
Gen. Willoughby is still an
other and very different type. This
stupendous of1icer-he is tall and
stout as an OK, with what seems to
be a square yard of decorations
on his cask-like chest-was born
IN Heidelberg. Germany, in 1892;
his mother was an American, his
father q German aristocrat. Nat
uralized as an American citizen
in 1910, he assumed his mothers
name. Nobody could be q more
civilized host than Gen. Will
oughby; with nobody in Tokyo
was it possible to have more pep
perry arguments. He gave a note
Of old Central Europe still. Gen,
Macarthur is the only man in the
world about whose opinion he
cares anything. The Supreme
Commander thought that some OF
his eccentricities may have been
annoying. but he had complete
confidence in him, as an officer;
Gen. Willoughby became his head
of Intelligence in 194l. asked
Gen. Willoughby what chiefly i'm!
pressed him about the General
when they first met. and his an
swer was, mot just his shiny
boots"
Gen. Willoughby encountered
some extremely severe criticism
when it seemed. early in Decem-
Der, 1850, that our forces in Korea
were facing possible catastrophe
as the result Of Chinese inter-
vention. Gen. Willoughby was
responsible for what information
Gen. Macarthur was receiving; !;
most other sources of intelligence
were frozen out.
= Gen. Macarthur, a profoundly
religious man. really believes in
Christianity, and relishes his role
as a defender of the Christian
faith and way of life against the
ravages Of Communism. Both he
and his wife are Episcopalians. He
did not, since he worked every
Sunday. attend church: his wife,
accompanied by Arthur, went in
his place. AS everybody knows he
uses the word God" frequently in
his speeches. OF all the gifts and
tributes that came to him on his
last birthday, the one that pleased
him most was an autographed
portrait of the Pope. He even goes
so far as to think of himself and
the Pope as the two leading rep
resentatives of Christianity in the
world today. The Pope fights on
the spiritual front. so to speak,
while he tackles Communism on
the ground.
Gen. Macarthur did attend a
ceremony when a memo
rial service was held for George
Atcheson, his State Department
advisor who was killed in an air.
plane crash in the Pacific. He
asked one Of his junior aides for
black arm band, and the aide
replied that regulations forbade
using such an arm band except for
the President Of the United States.
Macarthur replied gently. Listen
son, I'm wearing one"
TOMORROW: MacArthur's
religious, political uiews-Tokyo
today.
Prom the book. THE RIDDLE OF MAC
ARTHUR. published by Harper and Bros
Copyrlgnt l95O-l95l by John Gunther.