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Nome, Alaska, Friday, April 13, 1951
MacARTHUR EDITORIAL COMMENT
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American newspaper opinion on President Tru
man’s removal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur ranged
from a demand for Mr. Truman’s impeachment to vig
orous approval of his action.
Some Editorial comment:—
Chicago Tribune and Washington Times Herald:
“President Truman must be impeached and convicted.
His hasty and vindictive removal of General MacAr
thur is the culmination of a series of acts which have
shown that he is unfit, morally and mentally, for his
high office. . . . The American nation ... is lead by a
fool who is surrounded by knaves.”
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New York Times: “We do not see how it is possible
to question the correctness of the President’s decision.
Policy with respect to the conduct of a war cannot be
made in two places.. . . The Constitution puts the mak
ing of policy in the civilian hands of the Chief Execu
tive, and it is the clear duty of the military to express
its doubts or its dissent through proper military chan
nels and not in public debate.”
Portland Oregonian: “The basic issue is whether
the traditional authority of civil government over mili
tary government shall be maintained. . . . But now that
the President has asserted his authority, what will the
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peop.e say of his policies which have led us into a war
which he is unwilling to let us win? The people’s anger
ai the firing of Mac Arthur is their answer.”
New York Daily Mirror: “MacArthur has been
dismissed to please the cupidity of Great Britain, the
ignorance of Dean Acheson, the jealousy of General
George Marshall. America has been defeated by this
act of vengeance.”
Louisville Courier-Journal: A stronger president
would long since have removed MacArthur from his
Korean command when it became clear that he would
not limit himself to his military job.... His [Truman’s]
only alternative was to surrender the power of the
presidency to a field commander.”
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Truman Hopes
Action Will Bring
Peace Nearer
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“We are trying to prevent a world
war—not to start one.”
Mr. Truman said that the bomb- i
ing of Red bases in Manchuria
and the use of Chinese Nationalist j
troops from Formosa—both ad-1
vocated by MacArthur—would in
volve “a grave risk of starting a
general war.”
Then he made it clear he be
lieves that if a threatened new
mass offensive by the Commu
nists in Korea is crushed, the Reds
may decide that further aggres
sion there or elsewhere is “folly”.
Then, he said, the door would be
open to a peaceful settlement
“which will not compromise the
principle and purposes of the Uni
ted Nations.”
“Defeat of aggression in Korea
may be the turning point in the
world’s search for a practical way
of achieving peace and security,*’
the President predicted.
Any such outcome, of course,
would be pointed to by the Presi
dent’s friends as justifying his
drastic action in removing Mac
Arthur, a move that split Con
gress and the country into two
camps.
In Tokyo, an adviser said Mac
Arthur is preparing to return
speedily to the United States and
to make a stout defense of his
views.
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
arrived in Tokyo from Korea to
day to take over.
MacArthur did not meet the
plane.
Deposed Supreme Commander
Gen. MacArthur will fly home to
Bob Hope Honored
By Alaskan Command
Headquarters, Alaskan Com
mand, Elmendorf Air Force Base,
Anchorage, Apr. 13—Lt. Gen. W.
E. Kepner, commander-in-chief of
the Alaskan command, yesterday
affixed his signature to a citation
for Comedian Bob Hope. The gen
eral’s name heads the list of mili
tary men and women in the Terri
tory—from Pfc.’s on up—who are
busy signing their John Hancocks
in appreciation to Bo’b Hope, “The
G.I.’s Guy”. In fact, military peo
ple throughout the world, as well
as top level men in civilian life,
will be represented in the schools
which will be presented with the
citation when Hope is honored at
March Field, Calif., on May 6, his
tenth anniversary of entertaining
service men and women.
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the United States Monday at the
height of a boiling controversy
swirling around his dismissal from
Administration foreign policies.
Tokyo dispatches said the Paci
fic war hero was in a fighting
mood and ready to challenge Pres
ident Truman on the explosive
issue of meeting Communist ag
gression in Asia.
NOME FAIR PLANS
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photography, and commercial ex
> hibits, which are open to all busi
• ness firms. This year for the firs.
• time, the churches of our commu
| nity will feature their own exhibit.
I The high-light of the Fair this
iyear, will be a Fashion Show,
• sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi Sor
ority, with the most charming
young ladies in the community
taking part.
There will be special events for
i the children, including a talent
• show and pet parade.
The native troupe which per
formed at the Fur Rendezvous in
; Anchorage with such great suc
cess, under the direction of Sam
Mogg, will entertain one evening.
This is but a brief outline of the
j organization of the Fair. We all
| like to feel a pride in our commu
nity and in the accomplishments
of our neighbor as well as in our
own, stated the president with en
thusiasm. This Fair is the best op
portunity to demonstrate , your
pride in you* town.
Take part in this wholesome
project, says Terry, either as an
exhibitor or as a spectator, but
always as a BOOSTER.
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FAIRBANKS ACS HEAD DIES
FAIRBANKS, <#>)—Maj. Ernest
Bozak, commander of the Fair
banks sector of the Alaska Com
munication system, died here yes
terday following a cerebral hem
orrhage.
Bozak came to Alaska from Tor
rington, Conn., after attending
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and officer training school.
He is survived by his widow,
Virginia, in Fairbanks.
Burial will be in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery with full military
honors.
U. S. Tin Corp. Gets
1st DMA Loan
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employed. The coming two years
will see increased production and
employment.
This section of the Seward Pen
insula is the only place on the
North American continent, or un
der the American flag, where tin
is produced. Concentrates are
shipped to the company’s own
smelter in Seattle. Previously
they were shipped to Texas, then
the only tin smelter in the ILS.^
but when a new system of ex
tracting the ore was discovered,
which produced a finer grade tin,
U.S. Tin Corp. built the Seattle
smelter. Before World War n, the
company sent its tin to Singapore
to be smelted, as the Texas plant
was not then in existence.
The company, under its new op
erations of lode mining, will em- <
ploy local help in that area.
Since 1904, Sundborg said, four
million pounds of tin have been
exported from Alaska.
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Western Alaska
jin “Enemy” Hands
ANCHORAGE, m— The “en
emv” struck again at the Anchor
age and Fairbanks areas Wednes
d - v with bombing and strafing*
attacks that ended a four-day lull
i in exercise Firestep.
Fairbanks & Anchorage
“Bombed and Strafed”
Headquarters, Alaskan Com
mand, Elmendorf Air Force Base,
; Anchorage, April 12—The past 24
hours have seen extensive enemy
! activity throughout Alaska, with
simulated bombings and strafings
in the Fairbanks and Anchorage
areas, as well as strafings at bases
in southwest Alaska. Juneau, cap
ital city of Alaska, was for the
first time theoretically bombed
last night.
Oui of western Alaska has come
the news that an Eskimo National
Guard scout observed a number of
Eskimos migrating to avoid con
tact with “enemy” forces en
trenched there. There were indi
cations that the pretended “ene
my” in that portion of the Terri
tory are building up their strength
and that there is the possibility of
I an airborne attack in the near fu
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