Marshall eventually did meet with General MacArthur, whom he characterized as being “as biased as any person I’ve run across.” Apparently staunch in his conviction that blacks as a race were “inferior,” the general had no black soldiers in the honor guard protecting him—had none in his entire headquarters, in fact—“not even in the band,” Marshall noted, “and I assume that there are some Negroes who can play instruments.”
Another strike against the arrogant general.
