Week of May 1, 1951

It disclosed that a Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer warned President Truman in 1947,

that Communist forces would attack South Korea.

Gen. MacArthur will tell his story to senate investigators behind closed doors -

unless the general himself asks a public hearing.

A radar gunsight with devastating accuracy - a secret of the Korean War - is

disclosed to be helping jet pilots score their aerial victories.

on his second visit to the capital but it was a dignified

affair with none of the boisterous trappings that marked

his first arrival two weeks ago. He is to testify before a

senate committee investigating his dismissal as Far East

commander.

President Truman voices confidence that the American

public will support his dismissal of Gen. MacArthur as

Far Eastern commander when all the facts are known.

Apparently undisturbed by the widespread manifestations of

popular support for MacArthur, Mr. Truman urged Americans

to withhold judgment until the senate investigator s have

received al the evidence. When all the facts are known, Mr.

Truman said, there will be but one answer - and he has

already given that answer. A reporter asked whether

MacArthur “persuaded” Mr. Truman at their Wake Island

conference last October that Red China would not intervene

in the Korean War. Mr. Truman replied yes - MacArthur

persuaded him that the Chinese would not come in.

Testifying - Gen. MacArthur warns that unless Red China is beaten into

surrender by all-out air attacks the Korean conflict may explode into a third world

war. He told senators the course being followed by the Truman administration

may be inviting another war rather than avoiding it.

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Gen. MacArthur says some of the reports he made as United Nations

commander were changed in Washington to insert a “political slant” favored by

the State Department.

Gen. MacArthur estimated that battle casualties in Korea

have passed the 1 million mark. “Our losses, on our side,

are 250,000 men. I am not talking of the civilian populations

who must have lost many, many times that.” The enemy

probably has lost 750,00 casualties. There are 145,000 of

them that are now in our prison bull pens.”

More testimony - bombshell - Gen. MacArthur declares he

understands secretary of defense Marshall was willing to

discuss giving major concessions to the Chinese Reds as

the basis for a peace treaty. He declared Marshall took the

stand that a peace conference might well take up the

questions of turning over the island of Formosa to

Communist China and granting the Reds a seat in the United Nations.

Gen. MacArthur told senators he believes his dismissal as Pacific commander

was “the judgment of one individual” presumably President Truman.

Gen. MacArthur said that in his opinion war with Russia is not inevitable. “I

believe that the great masses of the world, what you might call the ordinary men

of the world, are invincibly against war. I believe that is so among the Russian

masses, just as it is among our own people. I believe that the great tragedy of the

world today is that we have not been able to establish the mechanics to carry out

the will of the common people that war shall be nonexistent.”

Western Union Telegraph Co. says that it does not consider dissemination of

racing news illegal. A statement issued by the company said it is “at a total loss

to account for” a charge in the senate Crime Committee’s report that Western

Union has not been “fully co-operative” with law enforcement officers. “It is not

the legal responsibility of the telegraph company to investigate the nature of the

business in which the users of the service many be engaged.”

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Week of May 1, 1951

Sports - Warren Spahn pitches a six-hit 5-0 game giving Boston a win over St.

Louis.

Gen. MacArthur’s famous pipe gets lost, but is found in an Army car that brought

him from the airport to the hearing.

An aide to Gen. MacArthur said that “up to the day Gen. MacArthur received his

notice of dismissal, he gave his wholehearted support to the President and made

desperate efforts to carry out his policies and directions.” Aid - Maj. Gen.

Courtney Whitney also said there was “not a word of truth” in a report that Gen.

MacArthur had been planning a war on President Truman long before the Chief

executive removed the general from all his commands.

Rests his case after three days of senate testimony - Gen. MacArthur tells

senators - “The Free world is doomed to destruction” if it fails to crush

completely the Communist threat in Korea. He denied he ever violated a

Presidential order and declared he never got a firm, workable plan from

Washington to carry on the Korean War. “I felt in all conscience, I could not go on

ordering men to their deaths by the thousands in such a complete vacuum of

policy decision.”

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The MacArthurs left for the south pacific on their honeymoon after the general

had been assigned to duty in Manila.

Entertainment news -

suspension for declining to start “The Girl Next Door”

her next scheduled picture in July.

Louis B. Mayer is back at his desk at MGM studios

after a rift with President Nicholas Schenck.

Television news -

Sent an hour during the morning - RCA announces in

a dramatic and an unannounced move: it has begun

transmission in full color from atop the Empire State Building over Channel 4 -

without interfering with reception on present black-and-white receivers. The

experimental broadcasts in color, which were the first to be conducted by RCA in

New York, are to be continued indefinitely. This comes as the TV industry awaits

the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the color-TV controversy. The

court is considering RCA’s appeal that CBS has produced a better color picture

than RCA. But, under the CBS system, the estimated 12 million television sets

now in use would require an adapter costing $20 or more to receive black and

white images from a color TV transmitter.

CBS is considering purchasing ABC for

a reported price of $28 million. ABC, in

which the majority stock is held by

Edward J. Noble, has TV stations in New

York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco

and Los Angeles. ABC was bought in

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1943 by Mr. Noble for $8 million before it had TV facilities. He did so by

purchasing NBC’s “Blue” radio network.

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Week of May 1, 1951

early morning program over WPTZ-TV (Channel 3) in

Philly is going to display his antics for the first time on

network TV. Look for him on NBC-TV Mon-Fri from 3:15-

3:30p beginning May 14. If it works out, he may get an

early prime-time show.

Sunday night television -

CBS - Gene Autry Show, This Is Show Business, Toast of

the Town, Fred Waring Show, Celebrity Time. What’s My Line?

NBC - The Aldrich Family, Colgate Comedy Hour, Schlitz Television Playhouse,

Garroway at Large, star Night

ABC - Paul Whitman, Club paradise,

DuMont - Roscoe Karns, Music From Chicago First Run Theatre

Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan - Johnny Johnston, Marcia Van Dyke, Eddie

Arcaro, Pinky Lee, Billy de Wolf.

At the movies -

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Week of May 1, 1951

Week of May 1, 1951