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"The long and short of it is they want defenses without spending the money; they want us to wage war without an army; they want us to have victory without out taking any risks, and they want us to try to run the whole world and run it without any friends."
The assembled Democrats got a great kick out of that. But millions of other Americans, Republicans and Democrats alike, had their ears tuned for the roar of a Constellation bringing Douglas MacArthur home.
*Martin telephoned MacArthur headquarters only once, on the first day, but had good knowledge of what MacArthur was thinking all week long. Presumably his go-between with Tokyo was Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War when MacArthur was Chief of Staff, wartime ambassador to China and, since then, unbending foe of Dean Acheson and the Asia policies of the State Department.