GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/19/1955 - HFSID 147215
Price: $2,250.00
"THE WORLD KEEPS ON TURNING OVER BUT I AM NOT SURE IT IS BUT GOING FROM BAD
TO WORSE."
DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
MacArthur sends a letter thanking a friend for a copy of a report in full.
Typed Letter Signed: "D. MacA.", 1 page, 8x10½. New York, N.Y., 1955
January 19. To Brigadier General Julius Klein, Chicago. In full:
"Thank you so much for sending me a copy of your report. I had seen extracts in
the papers but am glad to have a chance to read the full document. The world
keeps on turning over but I am not sure it is but going from bad to worse.
Best regards." With original typed, stamped envelope. Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964) graduated #1 in his class at West Point (1903) and rose to
brigadier general as a combat leader in France during World War I. He was named
US Army Chief of Staff in 1930, and lost popularity by forcibly expelling the
Depression era Bonus Army from Washington (1932). Through most of the 1930s, he
was chief military advisor to the Philippines, a US protectorate preparing for
independence. He commanded U.S. Army forces in the Far East (1941-1942),
becoming Allied Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific in 1942. In
December 1944, he was promoted to 5-star General of the Army. General
MacArthur later accepted the surrender of Japan aboard the battleship
Missouri on September 2, 1945. As Supreme Commander of the Allied
Powers in charge of the Occupation of Japan, MacArthur presided over a sweeping
and largely successful transformation of Japan, including a new, democratic
constitution. Supreme Commander of United Nations forces in Korea
(1950-1951), he was dismissed by President Harry S Truman in April
1951, for his continued public statements advocating extension of the war to
Communist China. He supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower's successful
Presidential candidacy in 1952, but had little influence on the new President,
who negotiated peace in Korea instead of following MacArthur's recommendation to
expand the war. After leaving the Army, MacArthur gave two well remembered
speeches: his farewell address to the US Congress (1951) and a final speech at
West Point (1962). Lightly creased with folds, not at signature. ¼-inch tear at
upper blank margin. Staple holes at upper and right blank margins, 3 file holes
at blank left margins, ¼-inch tears to left of each (all paper intact). Overall,
fine condition.
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