MACARTHUR'S MEMOIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7

MACARTHUR'S MEMOIRS

HEAVY BIDS IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, September 4. Fantastic offers are being made to General 'Mac Arthur by the Press, movies, and radio, says the "Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent.. It is said that the financial inducements already suggested total more than a million dollars. There is much speculation about General Mac Arthur's plans, but it is generally agreed that he will not stay in Japan over three years, and that after seeing the occupation over the worst hurdles, he will hand over to an efficient subordinate and retire from the army. Some of his friends say that the general will settle dovvn in Washington and write his version of the many controversies in which his name has figured since he last set foot in the United States in 1937. . Publishing houses want exclusive rights to General Mac Arthur's memoirs, and they would pay highly for articles by his wife, as well as ghosted articles by 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 •syndicatss have their bids. Another theory is that General MacArthur will retire to the Philippines, where he had extensive pre-war business interests.

HISTORIC BONER

MISTAKE IN SIGNING TOKIO DOCUMENT

1 NEW YORK, September 3. Colonel Cosgrove, who signed the Japanese surrender for Canada, was the culprit in an incident which interrupted the surrender signings aboard the Missouri and introduced a touch of humour into one of the gravest ceremonies of our time, says the "New York Times" correspondent. Each delegate signed two copies, one for Japan and one for the United Nations, with his signature above the name of .the signer's country. Colonel Cosgrove somehow lapsed and committed an historic boner when he signed the Japanese document underneath. General Leclerc, Admiral Helfrich, and Air Vice Marshal Isitt, who followed, repeated the error. The Japanese noticed the mistake, whereupon considerable discussion ensued, which ended when General Sutherland - crossed out the names of the four countries concerned and wrote them below the signatures. The Japanese gravely accepted the correction and peace became an official reality.