MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea

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287 Notes CHAPTER 1 1. Taiheiyo Senso Kenkyukai, ed., Zusetsu Makkasah [Illustrated history of MacArthur ] (Tokyo: Kawadeshobo Shinsha, 2003), 14–15, 148. 2. Ibid., 16–18; Carol Morris Petillo, Douglas MacArthur: Philippine Years (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981), 144–45; Michael Schaller, Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 3–10. 3.Mary Pinkney (“Pinkie”) Hardy MacArthur was the daughter of an aristocratic and wealthy cotton merchant from Virginia. Her brother and relatives fought for the South in the Civil War. She and Arthur had three sons, Arthur III, Malcolm, and Douglas. Malcolm died young and Arthur III died at the age of forty as a colonel, leaving Douglas as the focus of Pinkie’s deep affection. Among the many episodes that showed her strong attachment, Pinkie took up residence at a hotel on the edge of the West Point campus while Douglas was a student there. For his part, Douglas appeared to be influenced more by his mother than by his father. Pinkie headed for Manila with MacArthur in 1935, but died in December of that year from a cerebral thrombosis. She is buried in Norfolk, Virginia. 4.John Jacob Beck,MacArthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1974), 2. 5. Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 145–56. 6. Taiheiyo Senso Kenkyukai, Zusetsu Makkasah, 19–20; Schaller, Douglas MacArthur , 21. 7. Robert Wood, MacArthur’s classmate at West Point and later chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and leader of an anti–New Deal business lobbying group, took his old friend under his wing (Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 21). Eisenhower testified that after the honeymoon between Roosevelt and MacArthur ended, Roosevelt took steps to keep MacArthur in the Philippines in order to avoid a disadvantageous situation. See Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Diaries, ed. Robert H. Ferrell (London: W. W. Norton and Company, 1981), 7; Petillo, Douglas MacArthur, 158–60, 167. 8. Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 13. 9. Ibid., 14–21, 25–27. 10. Jean Faircloth was born in Tennessee in 1898. Her father was a wealthy flour-mill owner. Following the divorce of her parents, Jean grew up with her mother and two brothers in her grandfather’s house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her mother’s family was well known in Tennessee politics and her grandfather was a leader in Confederate veterans’ affairs. Having grown up listening to stories of relatives who fought in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, Jean was, according to MacArthur’s aide, Sidney L. Huff,“the flag-wavingest girl in town” (Sidney L. Huff, with Joe Alex Morris, My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur (New York: Harper, 1964). After receiving her inheritance, Jean set out on a world cruise at the age of thirtyseven ,boarding the SS President Hoover to visit a friend in Shanghai.The captain of the ship introduced her to MacArthur and his sister-in-law, Mary MacArthur. Mary MacArthur seemed to like Jean, and they became friendly. Persuaded by Mary to cut short her visit in Shanghai, Jean moved to a hotel in Manila. MacArthur and Jean had a wedding ceremony 288 NOTES TO PAGES 6–23 in New York. The next year their son, Arthur, was born. Jean enjoyed a high reputation as a devoted wife.In January 2000 she died at the age of 101.She is buried next to her husband in the MacArthur Memorial,Norfolk,Virginia.Huff,My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur 13; Papers of Jean MacArthur, Oral History, Transcript #6, RG13, June 19, 1984. 11. Beck, MacArthur and Wainwright, 3. 12. RG32, Oral Histories, Box 6, Folder 19, Admiral Charles Bulkeley, October 5, 1982, in Washington, D.C. 13. Engineer Memoirs, Major General Hugh J. Casey, U.S. Army, ed. Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, September 25–29, 1979, 126–27. 14. Schaller, Douglas MacArthur, 28–29. 15. Ibid., 27–28, 31, 36. 16. Beck, MacArthur and Wainwright, 4. CHAPTER 2 1. Engineer Memoirs, Major General Hugh J. Casey, U.S. Army, 125; according to Eisenhower’s testimony, MacArthur had been unaware of deterioration of his reputation. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Diaries, 37. 2. Paper of Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, USA (Retired), RG46. 3. Charles A. Willoughby, Biographical Sketches of Persons Interviewed: MacArthur Oral History Project compiled by Judy R. Hotard; Oral Reminiscences of Major Charles A. Willoughby. August 28, 1967, Interview D. Clayton James. 4. Oral Reminiscences of Major General Charles A. Willoughby, July 30,1971. 5. Oral Reminiscences of Major...