Week of April 8, 1951

President Truman conferrers with his military high command on what is believed

to be Gen. MacArthur’s attack on official United Nations policy in the Far East.

Sen. Kerr of Oklahoma suggested the administration consider firing him for “open

regard” of superior authority in making statements attacking U.s. and U.N. policy

in the Far East.

President Truman is reported considering

some disciplinary action against MacArthur but

is understood, to have reached no decision on

what - if anything - to do about it.

Gen MacArthur asks Army Secretary Pace for

more troops and greater latitude in waging the

war against the Communists in Korea.

President Truman is reported to have ruled out

any action against Gen. MacArthur that would affect MacCarthur’s status as

supreme commander in the Far East.

Week of April 8, 1951

Bulletin - President Truman fires Gen. Douglas MacArthur from all his

give his wholehearted support” to United States and United Nations policies.”

The President immediately designates Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway as

MacArthur’s successor as supreme commander, allied powers, commander in

chief, United Nations command; commander in chief, Far East; and commanding

general, U.S. Army, Far East.

The MacArthur firing stuns nearly everyone.

President Truman solemnly declares that Gen.

MacArthur’s proposed policies in Asia carried the

grave risk of a third world war. The President said he

had to dismiss the general to make clear the nation’s

“real purpose and aim” of peace. ‘Our aim is to avoid

the spread of conflict.” he told a nationwide radio

audience.

Angry President - President Truman, insisting he

had gotten information from a good source, calls Sen. Tobey (Rep-New

Hampshire) about word that he wants to begin impeachment proceedings against

him. “I understand you are going to have me impeached,” said the President,

according to Tobey. Tobey said he replied that he intended nothing of the sort.

“Now let me tell you this, Senator. If you want to have me impeached, you just go

right ahead and I’ll help you.’

the world to suspect the United States is “looking in the direction of

appeasement”(of the Chinese Communists).

The Milwaukee Journal quotes Sen. McCarthy as saying that

“treason in the White House’” has been accomplished by “bourbon

and benedictine.” According to the Journal, McCarthy asserted that

the “treason” was accomplished by men who knew how “to get the

President cheerful,” and continued that the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur by the

President is “a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and benedictine.”

Gen. MacArthur is assured of a chance to address a joint meeting of Congress

next week with the “happy” blessing of President Truman.

Week of April 8, 1951

Alcatraz officials tighten scrutiny after a guard had been arrested on a charge of

smuggling an inmate’s letter out of the island prison. The arrest was a result of

an investigation begun by the FBI when a surprise search turned-up a $1 bill

stuffed in a conduit. Warden Edwin Swope said he could not understand why

money was being smuggled into the prison unless it was to bribe someone.

Medical - About 800 doctors are requesting a new hormone that may restore hair

growth. The hormone was announced in February by Albert Roberts, president of

United Reseach Labs in Philadelphia. He says it’s a pituitary gland hormone, and

says it is not yet for sale.

Sports - The Harlem Globetrotters beat the College All-Americans 55-38 in front

of 31,646 fans - the largest crowd ever to see a basketball game (so far). The

game was played at the Rose Bowl.

with a 72-hole score of 280.

New York Yankees rookie Mickey Mantle takes

his Army pre-induction physical at the Tulsa

examining center. Mantle could be drafted, but

says he doesn’t mind. “I’ll play baseball for the

army or fight for it, whatever they want me to

do.” Mantle is now classified 4-F because of a

leg bone ailment which he says, pains him only

when wrapped tightly or sometimes during a

double-header.

marine veteran, testifies he joined the Communist Party

in a burst of misguided-emotion in June 1946, but quit in

disgust seven months later. The actor, who ticked off the

names of several members of his Hollywood cell

including former actress Karen Morley, said he returned

from highly dangerous war service with marshal Tito’s

Yugoslav partisans inbuett with the idea of righting the

world’s wrongs.

Judy Garland says she’s putting on weight - but doesn’t

care. “I’m going to let myself go. I’m going to grow up - a

thing the studios haven’t let me do. Slimming? It doesn’t matter anymore. I’ve

been trying to slim for years. When I’m slim the studios have been happy but I’ve

Week of April 8, 1951

felt ill and unhappy. When I am plump I’ve been happy but the company has

been unhappy.’

exercise show seen over WOR-TV New York.

At the movies

Elizabeth Taylor

The Mating Season

- Gene Tierney, John

Lund, Miriam

Hopkins, Thelma

Ritter, Jan Sterling

Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man

Sullivan

Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill.