The Press: Second Front

Look magazine has not been among the admirers of General Douglas MacArthur. In an article two years ago, his occupation regime was ticked off as "highhanded and inept." Last week, as might be expected, a Look article said that MacArthur should be removed from command because of the reverses in Korea. As might also be expected, the writer of the article was the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who has been harshly critical of MacArthur's conduct of the war from the beginning.

In Look, battle-worn Correspondent Bigart flatly blamed MacArthur for the "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and...

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