GENERAL MACARTHUR
"BEING SIDETRACKED"
NEW YORK, September 12. According to reports from Australia and elsewhere, General Mac Arthur is to play second fiddle to Admiral Mountbatten in the campaign pointed to Tokio, says the "New York Daily Mirror" in an editorial.
"Senator James Mead, when talking to reporters in New Guinea, left little, room for doubt that though General Mac Arthur may get some reinforcements^ Lord -Mountbatten is receiving priorities for the big push," says the newspaper.
The "Daily Mirror" points out that General Mac Arthur was not invited to the Quebec conference and never received mention in the speeches of President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. "We believe these obvious attempts to sidetrack General Mac Arthur and hush-hush his accomplishments are a dangerous mistake, subordinating victory to politics," it declares.
"General Mac Arthur remains our greatest general and the logical choice for the supreme command of the effort against Japan."
The "New York Daily News" predicts that these reports will precipitate a free-for-all fight on Capitoi .Hill on the question of whether Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill decided to blanket General Mac Arthur as a dangerous political opponent in the 1944 election by making Lord Mountbatten the commander-in-chief in South-west Asia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 5
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