WANT MACARTHUR MEMOIRS

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 289, 5 September 1945, Page 7

WANT MACARTHUR MEMOIRS

Americans Bidding

GENERAL’S PLANS NOT YET KNOWN (By Telegraph.—Press assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 4, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 4. Faiiiiistlc offers nre being muile to General MacArthur by the Press, movies mid radio, says the “HeraldTribune's” Washington correspondent. It is said that the financial inducements already suggested total more than a million dollars. There is much speculation about General MacArthur’s plans, but it is generally agreed that he will not stay in Japan over three years, and after seeing the occupation over the worst hurdles, will hand over to an efficient subordinate and retire from the army. ■Some of his friends say the general will settle down in Washington and write his version of the many contravenes in which his name has figured since he last set foot in the United States iu 1937. Publishing houses want exclusive rights to General MacArthur’s memoirs, and they would pay plenty lor art ices by bis wife, as well as ghosted articles bv his .eight-year-old son. Radio chains are in the bidding. Chain stores and life-insurance companies want, the general for executive posts, and newspaper syndicates have their bids. Another theory is that General MacArthur will retire tq the Philippines, where be had extensive pre-war business interests.