President Truman's relief of General Douglas MacArthur purposes is [just temporarily] allied with Soviet Russia." If MacArthur's thesis was accepted, then it followed that expanding the war with China would not provoke a conflict with the Soviet Union. The Joint Chiefs emphatically disagreed, although this contradicted their position that it was Europe and not Asia that was the prime concern of the Soviet Union. Even among Republicans, there was little support for MacArthur's position. On 5 April, Martin read the text of a letter he had received from MacArthur, dated 20 March, criticizing the Truman administration's priorities on the floor of the House. In it, MacArthur had
The President Vanishes against playing the role. Produced by Walter Wanger and directed by William Wellman, "The President Vanishes" began filming in Hollywood September 10, 1934. The film is described in John Douglas Eames' "The Paramount Story": Andre Sennwald reviewed the film for "The New York Times": "The President Vanishes" was adapted for the screen by Lynn Starling, Carey Wilson and Cedric Worth, with uncredited contributions by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. "Forty-two years later, paired in a revival with Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men", it could still stir audiences," wrote John McAleer. "For the initiated the film supplied a hint