MACARTHUR’S IDEA

Grey River Argus, 25 November 1942, Page 4

MACARTHUR’S IDEA

NEW AFRICAN FRONT Tribute to His Ability fAnst. & N.Z. Cahlp Assn.J (Rec. 8.20) NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Colonel Frederick Palmer, military correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, says: “Much of the credit for the steel ring being forged around the Axis forces in Tunisia and Tripolitana is due to General MacArthur. Months ago confidential word wfets received from Austral : a. which intimated that the Allied Supreme Commander in the<

South-west Pacific, General MacArthur, favoured the Mediterranean for a second front, and the military logic of the combined staffs in doll and Washington agreed with his views. The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in North, Africa', General Eisenhower, is General MacArthur’s disciple. I have seen the two working together in the past. Now they work together in spirit, because General Eisenhower, when he has a tough problem, .is prone to consider how General MacArthur would solve it. The “Old Master” has a little iarmv in the steaming jungle in New Guinea. He neatly nipped the Japanese when they tried to reach Port Moresby by landing at Milne Bay. He knows his Japanese, and how to wait for them with a noose when, in cocky over confidence, they stick out their necks. Unpleasant notice has been served on Japanese thiat General MacArthur is coming, and Admiral Halsey, too, when he accumulated sufficient force.”