Quote of the day (II): Joseph Alsop on the qualities of General MacArthur's staff


As for MacArthur's staff in Tokyo, with which he dealt
during the Korean War, the columnist Joseph Alsop wrote in his memoirs, I've
Seen the Best of It
: "For the
most part, they were insipid men, arrogant with the press, wary of each other,
and generally incompetent." (p. 323)



(Another HT to RLG)

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Published on March 08, 2012 02:15
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