HURDLES IN PATH
CHOICE OF MACARTHUR DRIVE-TO-JAPAN LEADER (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. General MacArthur’s offer to lead the way to Tokio has received stout backing of members of Congress, but the Navy and War Departments have pointed out unofficially that there are plenty of hurdles in the bath of his selection as commander-in-chief. General MacArthur has now reached the northern limits of his South-west Pacific theatre. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten commands the Southeast Asia theatre. The senior American commander in Asia is at present Lieutenant-General Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China. It is widely rumoured that General J. Stilwell will command any American invasion of China. uFrthermore, the Navy considers the area northward of the Philippines to be a Navy show. It was suggested that General MacArthur’s blunt offer had virtually dared the High Command to name anyone else.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 5
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