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tory from the files of too Mail
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10 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1942
(It was Friday)
Japanese land tanks in Philip
pine islands in effort to clean
up United States and Philippine
troops still offering resistance.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Two play
ers of the Portland ball team,
with the choice of joining the
army or the team, bravely joined
the ball team.
20 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1932
(It was Sunday)
Oregon State board of control
considers unification of all state
educational institutions under
one governing body.
California and Arizona police
warned to be on look-out for
car believed to be carrying kid
naped infant son of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh; two men arrested
in New Jersey for questioning in
case.
30 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1922
(It was Monday)
Medford Retail Merchants bu
reau asks city to regulate auto
mobile parking on downtown
streets "to alleviate congestion."
Two killed as rioting breaks
out anew in Belfast, Ireland; im
position of martial law believed
imminent.
40 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1912
(It was Wednesday)
Reports received in London
that British expedition headed
by Capt. Robert F. Scott has
reached the South Pole for the
first time in history. . .
Theodore Roosevelt's name en
tered in Oregon presidential pri
mary election.
Six Oregon Dentists
Ordered for Draft
Portland (U.R) Six Oregon
dentists in priority group No. 1
who have been classified in
classes 1-A or 1-A-O, are being
ordered to report for induction
April 22, state selective service
headquarters said Thursday.
The order indicated the board
will go ahead with its plan to
call up all doctors and dentists
in group 1 whether or not they
have received reserve commis
sions. Col. Francis W. Mason, depu
ty state director of selective
service, said the state advisory
board will contact the six den
tists and urge them to apply for
reserve commissions so that they
won't have to be drafted as en
listed men.
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN' THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK
SON COUNTY PROBATE DIVI
SION. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
EDWARD FORREST. DECEASED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Jackson County has ap
pointed - me as administrator of the
estate of Edward Forrest, and all per
sons having claims against said estate
are hereby required to present the
lime, with proper vouchers, within
six months from this date, at the
office of Paul W. Haviland. Court
house. Medford. Oregon.
Dated: February 21. 1952.
CURT NORMAN FRENCH
Administrator.
Paul W. Haviland
Robert R. Dickey
Attorneys.
NATION
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco. March 4 This
date, but is no longer. March 4th was inauguration day for Presi
dents elected the previous November, until a few years ago. Usu
ally the weather was terrible. Nothing terrible about today after
an absence of 24 hours the good old summer-time has returned, and
everyone is feeling better. Weather has more to do with disposition
than most people realize.
Two golf items in the morning paper remind the writer of Hugh
Starkweather, who recently resigned as "pro" at the country club.
Not only was Hugh one of the best golf instructors that ever cured
a slice, but a world-beater in the direction of golf "dope." Two
years ago, for example, Hugh picked a pug-faced lad by the name
of Jack Burke Jr., as "the coming champ" and just before the
Bing Crosby tournament two months ago, informed the writer that
Eill Nary, who was George Harrington's tournament partner, was
"one of the best" but had not played enough to help George much.
"If he sticks to the game a month or two, don't sell him short,"
concluded Hugh. Well Burke won his 3rd pro tournament at Baton
Rouge Monday, and Nary finished second in a playoff threesome.
That is known as "calling your shots."
Speaking of the Medford golf club, Federal Judge Fee was
and still is when federal court is in session an unforgettable figure
on the course during the summer months. In the first place the
judge is as big as a barn-door with his shirt on, and looks even more
gargantuan with it off . Ram or smne it was always on. ine juage
could hardlv be called an orthodox stylist at the game, but he had
STYLE that was all his own. It
driver technique, or perhaps more
sledge-swinger at the county fair the heavily muscled gent trying
to hit the peg so hard it would ring the bell and bring down a box
of nickel cigars. When "His Honor" hit the ball fair and square,
with a perfect follow-through, he won the long-driving contest
hands down, but this really added up to what is legally known as
a "non seauitur" for the award
through and Judge Fee was too busy seeing where the pesky pellet
was going to pay any heed to that. And he never loitered along
the wav. un-hill or down dale it was all the same, with his caddy
and the court-reporter (usually doubling for the afternoon as a golf
opponent), trying hard to keep up.
Judge Fee threw a bomb-shell into federal court circles here
the day we arrived, by speaking his mind regarding his colleagues
and when the judge speaks his mind, there is no more punch
pulling than when he plays golf. He didn't like the way the federal
grand juries had been selected or instructed, and maintained a new
grand jury should be called in the Smyth income tax case. Instead
of grand juries being limited in
attorney's office, or in their places
Judge Fee declared there was practically no limit to what they
might do if they wished, or where they might meet, be it "a bar.
night club or bawdy-house."
So that was that. And did the'
up and bust! One of them spent most of his time when instructing
a new grand jury yesterday paying his respects to this member of
of the Federal Court from "Or-Ree-Gon" although no names were
mentioned.
We quote Federal Judge Goodman:
"It has recently beon said that the grand jury may seek
information in a night club, bar or 'house of ill-fame.' and
that tho grand jurors, separately or in group, can attend
cocktail parties at the house of the prosecutor.
"Such questionable practices may POSSIBLY be per
mitted in icmo other jurisdiction. (Zingo!)
"Such practices savor much of the view of those who be
lieve that the moans, however disorderly, justify the end.
They are inevitably violative of fundamental constitutional
rights. '
"In Northern ' District of California, however, for over
100 years our Federal grand juries have met in the official
quarters provided and have conducted their inquiries and
deliberations there and no place else. In 1895 Judge W. W.
Morrow sent a grand juror to jail for six months 'for com
municating with witnesses in a Palace Hotel bar'."
Your correspondent would like to be within ear-shot of Judge
Algernon Fee when he reads that!
It should be noted, however, that not only Judge Goodman but
Judges Roach and Carter of the Northern California District fol
lowed in MORE THAN ONE DIRECTION the line so emphatically
recommended ten days ago by the judicial representative "in some
other jurisdiction!"
Here is something for the book.
' An editorial in Hearst's "Examiner" today speaks unfavorably
of Hearst's favorite candidate for the GOP nomination, Senator
Robert Alonzo Taft. (If the late William Randolph were alive that
editorial writer would be fired at once such deviation from the
Hearst line was one thing NEVER tolerated!) It is not the only
indication we have noted recently that the Examiner has improved
since the new and younger regime took over. Certainly there
was room for it! -
. Here is the polite little tap on the erring Ohio Senator's wrist
for his vote against the admission of Alaska as a state, quote:
"Senator Taft voted to recommit for reasons that do not
appear valid to us. He said he would vote for statehood tor
Hawaii because it was economically self-supporting, but
could not vote for Alaska because it would remain an eco
nomic dependency of the Federal Government. ... Senator
Taft's vote indicates ho has a rather short-sighted view of
America's critical strategic problem. . . . Wo can not admire
Republicans moved by petty political considerations."
That extract will be tacked up in a prominent place in the
sanctum of The Medford Mail Tribune, and duly referred to when
ever "Ye Editor" feels more than usually depressed by the "petty"
considerations of Republicans WE can't admire or "petty" Demo
crats, like Connally of Texas, for that matter!
It is really a sad' reflection upon the mass intelligence of this
country the kind of advertising copy that some of the largest
concerns put out. Do you know how to cure the pernicious laxative-habit,
for example? USE a LAXATIVE one of the oldest
'known to gullible genus homo.' Do you wish to preserve your teeth?
Us the new dental cream from which all sugar has been extracted.
Could anything be more simple or more absurd?
Yet "you ain't seen nuthin' yet" as the late, and lamented, Al
Jolson was supposed to have said. (Al departed this life, incidently,
suddenly and dramatically only a couple of blocks and only a year
ago from where this is being written, when your special cor
respondent was doing what he is "doing now.)
If the radio debate between Senator Dirksen of Illinois, rep
resenting the Republicans, and Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma,
representing the Democrats is any criterion, then prepare for a
severe strain on your composure and your blood-pressure in the
presidential campaign about to begin. . -.
Remember the fable of the greedy dog, who seeing in the stream
below, the reflection of the bone he had in his mouth, tried to
grab the bone reflected in the water and as a result lost both?
"Well, if this debate is a fair example of what the American
people will have to "take", there are going to be a lot of hungry
political "dogs" before the campaign is. over. R.WJt.
Court Room Displays
Oregon State Flag
Portland (U.PJ The Oregon
State flag today hangs beneath
the American flag in the circuit
courtroom of Judge Ashby C.
Dickson.
The Portland jurist, an ardent
states righter, said the legisla
ture should require every school
house and courthouse in the
state to display the blue and
gold banner.
Dickson saw the California
flag displayed in California
courts last summer and when
he returned to Portland he or
dered an Oregon flag from a
Portland firm. He hoisted it
over his bench yesterday, the
first one in a courtroom here.
Thursday. March 1952
used to be an important national
might be roughly termed the pile-
accurately the technique of the
depended upon the perfect toiicw-
their operations by the district
for investigation or deliberation,
magistrates thus impeached blow
Oregon Delegates
To 4-H Camp Picked
Corvallis (U.R) Oregon's
four . delegates to . the 1952 Na
tional 4-H club camp at Wash
ington, D.'C, June 18-25, were
announced .Thursday by state
4-H leader L. J. Allen.
They are Dianne Loennig, 17,
Haines; Beverly Rutherford. 18.
Corvallis; Brent Horn, 18, Pilot
Rock, and Jerry Wipper, 17,
Turner. Allen said the- four
named were the most outstand
ing 4-H'ers in the state.
WEATHER By UNITED PRESS
North California: Rain Thurs
day, becoming- partly- cloudy
through Friday with a few show
ers extreme north portion! snow
in mountains; slightly cooler
Thursday night, ; "
Crosstovn
"I didn't make any hole In this one woodpeckers like -to
build their OWN entrance."
Matter of Fact
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN
MYSTERY
Washington The Republican
situation in the South is just
about the queerest feature of the
current political scene. Its mys
terious outlines are startlingly
diclosed by a poll of the editors
and political experts of 23 lead
ing Southern newspapers. Their
answers, which blanket the tra
ditionally Solid South, are as
follows:
First, the established Southern
Republican leaders almost unan
imously favor the candidacy of
Sen. Robert A. Taft . of Ohio.
These men have run their state
Republican parties for many
decades like so many small,
profitable, exclusive clubs, even
in some cases holding their
political conventions in their
own houses, as indicated in the
last report in this space. They
control the party machinery,
and if they can prevent hoi pol
loi from breaking into their
clubs, they will send Taft dele
gations to Chicago. They are
generally expected to succeed in
Arkansas, Florida,' Mississippi,
Tennessee and West Virginia.
Second, the Southern popular
surge in favor of General of the
Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
has caused a good deal of vul
gar battering on the club doors
in Alabama, Louisiana, Ken
tuckyNorth Carolina, Virginia
and Texas. It is very far from
excluded that the old-line Re
publican leaders will manage
to hold several of these states
for Taft. In others, the Eisen
hower leaders may pick up a
delegate or so, as they have in
Kentucky, where the most bru
tal representative tactics of the
pro-Taft faction have held the
Taft loss to an estimated two
delegates. And in still other
states, like North Carolina, a
considerable share of "the dele
gates may go for Eisenhower.
rpHIRD, however, Sen. Taft, the
favorite of the professionals,
appears to be highly . unlikely
to carry a single Southern state
for his party, whereas Gen. Ei
senhower would probably carry
several of them. On' this point,
the expression of the Southern
editors and political experts is
both frank and clear.
For example, B. S. Griffith,
executive editor of the Char
lotte, N. C, News, writes that
"If Truman is the Democratic
nominee I think Eisenhower
could carry the state. I am con
fident Taft COu'd no rarrv 't
regardless of the Democratic
nominee. (But) i the -ficials
can keep control,, the
state will go for Taft at the con
vention." Again, from Alabama, Fred
Taylor, political analyst of the
Birmingham News, writes that
"Sen. Taft has a big bulge in
Republican - organization sup
port. But as for popular, sup
port . . . Gen. Eisenhower has
a wide margin." And Grover
Hall of the Montgomery Adver
tiser goes further,, saying that
"right now Eisenhower enjoys
a popularity second only to Jef
ferson Davis on his inaugura
tion day." .
; Over all, of the 23 editors and
political experts queried, 14 gave
their views on the national elec
tion. A single editor, E. D. Lam
bright of the Tampa, Fla., Morn
ing Tribune,; opined that Sen.
Taft might perhaps carry his
state against President Truman.
None of the remaining 13 held
out any hope that Taft . would
carry any Southern state, and
all 14 indicated, with ; varying
degrees of confidence, that their
states could be carried by Gen.
Eisenhower.
KENCE, if the South's leading
editors and analysts are to
be trusted, at least a majority
of the Southern Republican dele
gates are going to the man who
cannot win any Southern states,
while the Republican candidate
who has an excellent chance in
the South will at best get the
votes of a minority of the
Southerner! at Chicago. The sit
By Jtofamf Cm
Stewart Abo
uation seems a trifle anomalous,
to put it mildly. .
The practical explanation lies,
of course, in the careful cultiva
tion of the Southern political
vineyard both by Sen! Taft him
self and by such expert lieu
tenants as John Marshall, and
Brazilla Carroll Reece. Yet this
quite obvious practical explana
tion does not answer the really
big question confronting the na
tional Republican party. This is
the question, "How is any Re
publican to be elected to the
presidency who cannot break
the Solid South?"
It is wrong, nowadays,' to
base political calculations on the
pattern of 1924 and 1928, when
California was still a Repub
lican state and New York was
so evenly divided that the Re
publicans always carried it in
their good years. The Demo
crats have now gained so much
strength in Northern states like
these that in California, for ex
ample, Democratic . registration
outweighs Republican by two
to one. No Republican candi
date without powerful appeal to
the broad mass of independent
voters (whom Sen. Taft has rath
er publicly rejected) can rea
sonably hope, nowadays, for an
old-fashioned. Republican sweep
in the North.
The Southern. Democratic
leaders have meanwhile ' made
doubly sure that Sen. Taft will
not make any inroads in the
South. This is one Of the results
of the candidacy of the able
Sen. Richard R. Russell of Geor
gia. If the Republicans pick Ei
senhower, Russell 'will almost
certainly stand down. But if- it
is Taft and Truman, then Rus
sell will run, and the Southern
votes that Taft might get will
go to Russell. All in all, these
are important practical .. prob
lems for the Republicans to pon
der. (Copyright, i952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Initial for pnbUcation is permis
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Ucation must not exceed 400 words
Answers Dr. Coyle
To the Editor: May I have
space to correct a few wrong
impressions which may have
been left by Dr. Coyle's recently
published letter?
To begin with, Jackson county
has not overlooked "some" homi
cides, as Dr. Coyle infers where
more offices than the coroner's
are involved.
The coroner has authority to
determine tne cause
only when there are reasonable
grounds to suspect homiciae, sui
cide or accidental death. In such
instances, this office has never
investigated alone, . but in co
operation with police ' depart
ments and the district attorney's
office. -In
case of death with m at
tending physician, and
when
ueaui uues nut cuiuc Uiiu-- iuc
jurisdiction of the coroner, the
county health office, by law, de
termines the cause of death not
the coroner.
Autopsies cannot be perform
ed promiscuously. They must
either be ordered by the district
attorney or . the family. They
cannot be performed to further
medical science.
The coroner's office receives
$5 for each call, regardless of
MILO'V. KUBALEK
Doctor of Dental Surgery
Announces the Opening of Offices for
the practice of General Dentistry at
- 1320 WEST MAIN STREET
' Telephone 3-1951
Eisenhower's PQliiieal
Formative Years,:
By KEVIN MeCANN
; President Defiance College .
(Those articles are based on
tho book. The Man From .,'
Abilene." by Kevin McCann.
to be published by Double
day and company.)
! The years between 1920 and
1940 were significant in Gen
eral of the Army Dwight D.
Eisenhower's life. They were
formative years, in which he
practiced not only the purely
military arts but engaged in the
tasks of administration, of train
ing manpower, of studying
America's natural and indus
trial resources and her strategic
requirements. He was acquiring
the background for the science
of government.
Three assignments removed
his pattern from the predictable
to the extraordinary. One was
to the American Battle Monu
ments Commission, in the late
twenties. The second was to the
office of the Assistant Secretary
of War, in ,1930, , where he
planned industrial mobilization,
helped to found the Army In
dustrial College, studied alter
nate sources of rubber such as
synthetics and-guayule. Third,
in . 1933, General Douglas Mac
Arthur, "then Chief of Staff,
brought Eisenhower into' his of
fice to help in drafting reports
and documents and " to '. battle
with economy-minded Congress
for military outlays that would
give us some preparedness.
Asked for Eisenhower .
In the fali of 1935, MacArthur
became military adviser to the
Philippine government. He asked
for Eisenhower as senior mili
tary assistant. Their close asso
ciation was to last until the end
of 1939. Eisenhower had a ma
jor role in the job of building a
citizen army for defense . of the
Philippine Islands. It was excel
lent training for SHAPE.
Eisenhower's earlier .work
with the Battle Monuments
Commission, in Washington and
in France, gave him intimate
knowledge of. French terrain,
climate, transportation nets. He
studied the topography from
Brest to the Rhine, tramped the
battlefields, noted many items
of military interest, prepared
accounts of American operations
from channel ports to the Cob
lenz bridgehead. It was useful
knowledge for June 6, 1944.
Much Speculation
There has been much specula
tion about relations between
MacArthur and Eisenhower.
Ending his tour as Chief of Staff
in 1935, MacArthur had this to
say of his young assistant:
"You were retained by the
Secretary of War, and later by
myself, on critically v important
duties in the department long
past the duration of ordinary
time involved, plus mileage!
Quite frankly, our gain is the
fact we are often chosen to con
duct memorial services for the
deceased.
.1, personally, have gone on 90
per cent of these calls since tak
ing office. Is it logical to believe
a busy doctor can afford to leave
a practice to be gone sometimes
half a day at a time to investi
gate a coroner case, or- would he
more likely appoint deputies to
do this for him? Where would
be the gain in efficiency? .
Jackson County Coroner.
Carlos W. Morris,
Cats Need Home
To the Editor: Will you please
publish the following to help us
find a home for 11 abandoned
cats which we have cared for.
We are going away and hate to
leave them without a home. ;
"We are . 11 cats who have
lived very happily in a big barn.
When we came here the barn
was full of mice, but now the
folks find no grain spoiled from
mice.
"Every day they bring us two
slices of breda and pour us warm
milk to drink, but they are going
away for the summer and there
will be no more milk and they
are worried about our liveli-
hood.
"Most of us were dumped here
and were made welcome and
happy. Some of us sit at the
milk stool and paw at their boots
for them to hurry with our sup
per. "Does anyone else like cats?
If so please give as many of
us as possible a home. We would
be very grateful and. the folks
could have a better summer if
we were taken care of." We are
black and silver grey in color
and all beautiful cats. Please
call 2-8087 . if interested.
Eleven Worried Cats." .
. Ernest W. Pheister,
Rt. 3, Box 127,
Medford, Ore.
California bees produced 480,
000 pounds of beeswax in 1951,
leading all other states.
A Half-Doxcn With Mac Arthur
staff tours, solely because of your
success in performing difficult
tasks whose accomplishment re
quired a comprehensive grasp of
the military profession in all its
principal phases, as well as an
alytical thought and forceful ex
pression. Through all these years
I have been impressed by the
cheerful and efficient devotion
of your best efforts to confining,
difficult and often strenuous du
ties, in spite of the fact that your
own personal desires involved a
return to troop command other
physically - active phases of
Army life, for which your char
acteristics so well qualify you."
Nothing Said Missed
He immediately added as an
assurance to the younger man
that he had "really missed noth
ing at all:
"In this connection I should
like to point out to - you ; that
your unusual experience in the
Department will be of no less
future value to. you as a com
mander than as a staff officer,
since all problems presented to
you were necessarily solved from
the viewpoint of the high com
mand. . . . The numbers of per
sonal requests for your services
brought to me by heads of many
of the Army's principal activi
ties during the past few years
furnished convincing proof of
the reputation you have estab
lished as an outstanding soldier.
I can say no more than that this
reputation coincides exactly
with my own judgment."
More emphatically than any
letter,' Eisenhower's, departure
for the Philippines with Mac
Arthur in the same year testified
to both his. respect for and his
personal loyalty to the older
man.
In the islands, Eisenhower
helped to build a Filipino army,
an air . force, a fleet of motor
torpedo boats. He ajso worked
out a defense plan which ac
curately predicted that the main
Japanese attack would come
along Lingayen Gulf. The plan
also provided that, the Ameri
can and . Filipino defenders
would . retire onto . the . Bataan
Peninsula and Corregidor for a
delaying and holding action. This
they were to do, tying up far
more than their numbers in
crack Japanese troops.
War Made Him Restless
The outbreak of World War
II made Eisenhower restless in
his Philippines job. He wanted
to get home, as he wrote in
"Crusade in Europe," in order
"to take part in the work of
intensive preparation- which I
was now certain would begin in
the United States." He had had
eight years of "military planning
and pleading." He longed to be
with men and weapons, "the two
fundamental elements of mili
tary effort."
Reluctantly, President Quezon
let Eisenhower go. On Dec. 12,
1939, Quezon awarded Eisen
hower the Distinguished Service
Star of the Philippines, with this
citation:
"As .the senior assistant of the
military adviser from the in
auguration of the commonwealth
to the present time; Colonel Eis
enhower has continuously de
voted his exceptional talents to
the development of adequate se
curity forces for the. Philippines.
Through his professional attain
ments, his breadth of under
standing, his . zeal and his mag
netic leadership, he has been re
sponsible for notable progress in
the Philippine Army. Through
his outstanding achievements, in
the service of xhe Philippine govr
ernment, he has 'increased . the
brilliance of his already en
viable military reputation, and
has earned the gratitude and
esteem of Jhe Filipino people."
Paid Compliment
The following day the Eisen
howers sailed from Manila on
the President Coolidge. Gen.
MacArthur (who had been named
a field marshal' of the Philip
pines) and Mrs. MacArthur paid
them the unusual compliment of
seeing them off at the pier.
Eisenhower knew.; that the
first job would be to get ready
to deal with Hitler. After listen
ing in Manila to Prime Minister
Chamberlain's broadcast of Sep
tember 3, 1939, on the outbreak
of war Eisenhower had written,
prophetically:
; "After months and months of
feverish effort to appease and
placate the madman that is gov
erning Germany the British and
French seem to be driven into
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan -
FUNERAL
Phone
Greed
a corner out of which they can
work their way only fighting.
It's a sad day for Europe and for
the whole civilized world
though for a long time it has
seemed ridiculous to refer to the
world as civilized.
Spread of Communism Seen
"If the war, which now seems
to be upon us, is as long drawn
out and disastrous, as bloody
and as costly as was the so-called
World War, then I believe that
the remnants of nations emerg
ing from it will be scarcely rec
ognizable as the ones that ent
ered it Communism and anarchy
are apt to spread rapidly, while
crime and disorder, loss of per
sonal liberties, and abject pov
erty will curse the areas that
witness any amount of fighting.
"It doesn't seem possible that
people that proudly refer to
themselves as intelligent could
let the situation come about.
Hundreds of millions will suf
fer privations and starvation,
millions will be killed and
wounded because one man so
wills it . . . power drunk ego
centric . . . one of the crimin
ally insane . . . the absolute
ruler of 89,000,000 people, And
by his personal magnetism,
which he must have, he has con
verted a large proportion of
those' millions to his insane
schemes and to blind acceptance
of his leadership. Unless he is
successful in overcoming the
whole world by brute force the
final result will be that Ger
many will have to be dismem
bered. "
Called Backr to Desk
The attack at Pearl Harbor
forced Eisenhower back from
field work to desk work in
Washington, working on our Pa
cific defenses and on means to
supply MacArthur's beleaguered
forces. In February, 1942, Que
zon wirelessed a bombshell to
the White House: he wanted the
islands declared independent
and neutralized. MacArthur
asked for instructions.
Eisenhower spent all of Feb.
9, 1942 (he recorded on a desk
diary), "preparing drafts of
presidential messages to Mac
Arthur and Quezon. Long, diffi
cult and irritating. . . . But now
we'll see what happens. Tonight
at 6:45 I saw the president
and got his approval to sending
the messages."
One message, from Roosevelt
to MacArthur, ruled out thfc
Quezon idea. It said in part:
"American forces will con
tinue to keep our flag flying in
the Philippines. . . . There has
been gradually welded into a
common front a globe-encircling
opposition to the predatory pow
ers that are seeking the destruc
tion of individual liberty and
freedom of government. We can
not afford to have this line
broken in any particular the
ater." The message also instructed
MacArthur to inform Quezon
that whatever happened, the
American forces would return
"and drive the last remnant of
the invaders from your soil."
" (Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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