MacArthur's Credo

The political fires which burned briefly last spring for General Douglas MacArthur had all but flickered out. Nothing had been heard of the MacArthur-for-President Clubs since last summer.

Last week Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch, recently returned to Washington from Australia, repeated a charge often made but never documented: "Political Washington was largely responsible for setting up two separate commands in the Far Pacific, and it did this partly because of jealousy of MacArthur's great popularity and partly because the conservative opposition press launched a MacArthur-for-President campaign--without any encouragement from the General himself." The statement was buried in the 17th paragraph of a Pacific roundup story, but it made big reading by the time it reached the Australian headlines.

General MacArthur felt obliged to take official notice of an old unofficial misconception. Said he: "I have no political ambitions whatsoever. ... I started as a soldier and I shall finish as one. The only hope and ambition I have in the world is for victory for our cause in the war. If I survive the campaign, I shall return to that retirement from which this great struggle called me."

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