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MacArthur's Problem. Last week Mac-Arthur was deep in one of the most difficult problems of his career. Defense of the Philippines was always planned in the belief that communications with the Philippine Islands could be kept open.
As a brilliant, visionary strategist General MacArthur knew that it was more important to hold the Malaya-Singapore-Netherlands Indies line, that if necessary the Philippines would have to be sacrificed. But MacArthur is quite capable of flouting the laws of war. The High Command might decide by the rules that the Philippines should be given up. But the last man to be convinced of that fact would probably be Douglas MacArthur. And if the islands should be lost, the U.S. would probably lose its best fighting general with them.