Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1942 — Page 30

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, FEB. 6 , 1942

“Take The Offensive Is The Heart Of Gen. MacArthur’ s Fighting Creed

This is the second of three articles dealing with the life and spectacular exploits of the Army's No. 1 fighting man, Gen. Douglas MacArthur of the Philippines.

By TOM WOLF Times ._ Writer LATE IN 1937. 2 hard-boiled sergeant was joyously pounding some military fundamentals og an unfortunate rookie when word reached him that Gen. Douglas MacArthur was going to retire, The Sergeant let up on his prey. shook his head slowly. He turned to the recruit: “There goes a soldier. son It was a sentiment shared by many in the ranks of the U. S. Army. As a soldier, Gen. MacArthur's flair for the theatrical combined with his fighting brilliance to inspire all who knew him. Their number was legion. One episode sai] without complete equipment. suffices: And it was no small tribute to It was the summer of 1918 and his wisdom that the outfit that some officers were looking for peat him to France had to call Gen. MacArthur, who. typically on him for supplies during the was roaming the front lines winter somewhere Have you seen Gen £E &

MacArthur?” they asked some Saw Plenty Action

doughboys “No, sir.” ONCE IN THE FIELD, there “De you know him when you was no holding him. As one prisee him?” vate in the A. E F. put it: “He's “Hell, sir, every a hell-to-breakfast baby. long and Gen. MacArthur” lean, who can spit nickels and plied chase Germans as well as any Gen. MacArthur went to France doughboy in the Rainbow.” Twice wounded, once gassed,

2 colonel, as chief of staff of the 42d Division, the famed Rainbow Gen. MacArthur came out of the war with most of the eight rows

—2a MacArthur-inspired name of ribbons that now, with his

wanted the Rainbow to be the first to France. He was beaten to the field because he would not

minutes to make up his mind.

four stars of full generalship, decorate his uniform. He personally took part in an attack on a machine gun nest, adding an oak leaf cluster of the DSC he won because, “On a field where courage was the rule, his courage was the rule, his courage was the dominant feature.”

one knows the soldiers re-

When Philippine President Manuel Quezon MacArthur te be his military advisor, it took the General only five

(left) asked Gen.

Disdaining helmet, gas-mask and side arms, he once went into No Man's Land armed only with a riding crop, brought back eight German prisoners, . including a captain. Smoky Harper, athletic trainer at Vanderbilt University, who served under Gen. MacArthur in

Always on the offensive. he Vole L

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the 42d, Rainbow, Division, says if the General were a football coach he'd always take the offensive, x

Keeps Ball Moving

“HE LIKED to keep the ball moving,” Mr. Harper says. “You could find him right up there in the front line trenches with his men. He didn't like to be put on the defensive, and would force the fighting if he could. If I remember him right, he'll make mincemeat of these Japs.” The very unorthodoxy that made him a brilliant fighter—his offensive spirit, his sense of the dramatic—dealt him an unkind blow in the ‘race for Sedan” at the war's end. Gen. MacArthur, leading the 84th Brigade of the 42d Division, was pushing for=ward with an advance patrol, race ing with the 1st Division for the

honor of capturing the strategic | city.

He had taken the stiffening out of his officer's cap. It was more comfortable that way. Besides, it looked snappy. Unfortunately, to a patrol of the 1st Division it also looked German, Gen. MacArthur

was the only American general |

“captured” during the war. After the Armistice, he stayed in France with the Army of QOccupation for a short time before being brought back as comman-

dant—youngest in its history—of | the West Point from which he |

had been graduated but 16 years

before. o 2 on

Popular With Cadets

GEN. MAC ARTHUR was immensely popular with the cadets. Every inch a soldier, equally flam-

boyant, he has always been able |

to instill army spirit into younger men. His job at the Academy was to humanize its

program and |

streamline it to the techniques of |

modern war. to plead for its enlargement, “lest”

His avocation was |

as he warned in best MacArthur- |

ian style, “a condition may ultimately result which will be paid for in the bitterness of American blood.” In 1922 he was transferred from the Academy to the Philippines. In the same year he married Louise Cromwell, stepdaughter of rich, Republican Edward Stotesbury and sister of James H. R. Cromwell.

The marriage was not |

a happy one and was dissolved in | an amicable divorce in Reno in |

1929.

After three years in the islands, the latter ones as commander of the Philippine Department, Gen.

MacArthur returned to the U. S. |

a major general, spent the next five years commanding

corps areas. Then, in November,

various |

1930, President Hoover called him |

to Washington as Chief of Staff. | youngest in American

He was 51, military annals. Gen, Lytle Brown, retired, now head of the Tennesse State Tire Rationing Board, was chief Army

engineer in Washington then, and |

saw a lot of Gen. MacArthur.

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Saw Blitz Coming

PRAISING Gen. MacArthur's energy and “uncanny judgment,” recently ‘Gen. Brown added: “It makes me feel bad to see him exposed in such a helpless position. If Gen. MacArthur were ordered to leave his men to save himself, he probably wouldn't do it. He's just the kind of man to disobey that kind of order. His troops will stay with him to the last man. If they die, then he'll die with

| them.”

Gen. MacArthur inherited an American army at its 20th Century low. The combination of

world peace and depression had |

riddled Army appropriations.

Foreseeing with uncanny ac- |

curacy blitzkrieg warfare

(“mo- |

bile, highly trained, very power- |

ful, though somewhat formations”), he worked tigably to “lift the Army the danger line.” Pacing endlessly (as is his habit) before the long, blue-black

ahove

smaller | indefa- |

drapes that are standard equip- |

ment in the Chief of Staff's office,

smoking continuously through the |

10 - inch - long carved holders he imported from the Orient, Gen. MacArthur pleaded, warned threatened. His purple oratory painted dark pictures of

cigarette |

America's future if the Army were

not expanded. “I have humiliated myself . . I have almost licked the boots of some gentlemen to get funds for the motorization and mechanization of the Army. Unless we move

quickly, we will be a beaten na- |

paying huge after the next war,”

indemnities | he warned. |

“The Army is below the danger |

line.” American Army a chance in the

“Pass this bill and give the |

next fight it wages for the life |

of the country.”

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WHILE HE was pleading, was a Iso working. He Es the Four-Army system, established a unified GHQ Air Force, increased the size of the Army and of West Point. Most important of all, he laid the groundwork for the motorization and mechanization of the Army. He plugged for the Garand rifle, calling it the “world’s best.” So vast was the scope of this reorganization that even Gen. MacArthur could not complete it in four years. At Secretary of War Dern's insistence, President Roosevelt held him on for a year. When his job was completed, he was awarded an Oak Leaf cluster, a signal peace-time honor. As Chief of Staff it fell to Gen. MacArthur to evict the Bonus Army from Washington, The

“Victory of 18] Flats” heaped abuse on the General's head. He has never bothered to answer the criticism — criticism that he foresaw and could easily have escaped. He was given orders to clear the Bonus Army out. He could easily have delegated the job to a subordinate. Fully aware of the scorn that would be heaped on him, Gen. MacArthur, mounted on a white horse, personally led his troops.

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Shamed His Critics

IN THE FALL of 1935, President Quezon of the Philippines approacned Gen. MacArthur with the idea of coming to the islands as military advisor. Characteristically, it took the General only

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12 minutes to make up his mind. His Philippine heritage, his love of the Filipino people, and his high opinion of the importance of the islands’ defense to the U. 8, made him anxious to go. President Roosevelt relieved him of his job as Chief ot Staff. Later, when Gen. MacArthur resigned trom the American Army to become Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, his enemies seized upon his nearly $50,000-a-year salary, his rent-free pent house apartment and above all upon the glittering title he ine herited. “He knows a good thing when he sees one,” they said. Gen. MacArthur shamed them in a single sentence: “I would not sell my sword.” NEXT—Defender of the Philippines.

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