TITLES AND POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25239, 31 May 1943, Page 3

TITLES AND POLITICS

MacARTHUR’S POSITION CHICAGO PAPER’S COMMENT (Rec. 8 p m.) NEW YORK, May 29. ” The fact that General Eisenhower has also received a knighthood will not obscure from Americans the object of rendering General MacArthur unavailable as the principal contender against President Roosevelt for the Presidency in 1944,” says the Chicago Daily Tribune in an editorial. “President Roosevelt’s British colleagues doubtless want him returned and he lias done what he can to assure that result. Americans do not look kindly upon any of their fellows who receive titles, however humble, from foreign rulers. If General MacArthur receives a title his standing in the eyes of Americans may be as seriously affected as was General Pershing’s in similar circumstances. General MacArthur cannot refuse the badge, because to do sc* would oftend the Australians, who have followed him with perfect loyalty. Moreover lit said he had no political ambitions but he may feel differently at the end of the war. He cannot decline a title, but it is to be hoped that Congress will refuse it for him.”