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Willoughby Charges Deception
n Reporting Of Korean War
Six Newspapermen Accused Of
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“’lnaccuracy And Prejudice
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part article by
Associated Press writer Relman Morin concerning Major General
Charles A. Willoughby's article printed in the December issue of
Cosmopolitan Magazine. The last part of the article will appear in
tomorrow’s Banner-Herald.)
BY RELMAN MORIN
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.— (AP) —General MacArhur's
former chief of intelligence has accused six newspapermen
of “inaccurate, biased and prejudiced” reporting of the
Korean war, and charged their writings gave aid and com
fort to the Communists.
The officer is retired Major General Charles A. Wil
loughby.
In an article in the December issue of Cosmopolitan
Magazine, Willoughby named the six individual newspa
permen and also criticized three news-magazines. He said
they “appeared to go out of their way to create defeatist
thought patterns, and to belittle the country’s armed
forces.
Newspaper coverage of the
war, Willoughby said, may have
been the major factor in Presi
dent Truman’s decision to fire
Gen. MacArthur.
“T am convinced the nuance of
defeat created an atmosphere of
tension, uneasiness and distrust
between Tokyo and Washington,
This is believed to have been the
major cause of the MacArthur-
Truman split.”
Sharp Denials
Sharp denials immediately came
frem the newspapermen whom
Willoughby identified by name.
They are: ;
*Jnseph Alsop, syndicate column
{st; Hanson Baldwin, military cor
respondent of the New York
Times; Homer Bigart, war cor
respondent of the New York Her
ald-Tribune; Hal Boyl, war cor
respondent and columnist of the
Asscciated Press; Drew Pearson,
svndicaje columnist; and Chris
topher Rand, former member of
the Herald-Tribune’s Korea staff,
now resigned.
“During the most difficult days
In Korea,” Willoughby wrote,
“these men were often inaccurate,
biased, prejudiced and petulant; |
they eonfused an unhappy public.
The eorrosive effect of their irre-:
sponsible reporting was equal to
that of calculated defeatism, even
if such was not intended. Their
reporting furnished aid and com
fort to the enemy.”
Willoughby also cited Time,
Newsweek, and U. S. News and
World Report for “inferential, if
not caleulated deception of the
publie.”
He called the newspapermen—
“Thesge ragpickers of modern lit
erature . . . careless chroniclers
. .. jittery experts . . . journalistic
soothsayers . . ~ the fickle press
. . . the panting eagerness of a
sidewalk huckster and the unctu
ous eoncern of an undertaker.”
Accusations
Willoughby’s accusations cen
tered, mainly, around two points:
1. That the correspondents had
“belittled” the Eighth Army, and,
2. That they erroneously de
scribed last year's withdrawal, un
der Chinese attack, as a ‘“defeat,”
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aggerating the casualty figures.
In their replies, the correspon
dents denied having eriticized the
Army, as such, or the individual
soldiers. They said they had crit
icized MacArthur, for his overall
| decisions, and Willoughby for his
intelligence reports, on which
MacArthur apparently based his
strategy in Korea.
As an examples of the “belittl
ing” of the Army, Willoughby
quoted extensively from an article
by Baldwin. It compared Ameri
can generalship, troops and equip
'ment with those of other coun
-tries, and said the Americans were
not always the best in the world.
Willoughby described this as a
“devastating, surprising and tell
ing reportorial attack.”
Baldwin said the article was
written before the Korean fighting
began. rle said it was prepared
early in the spring of 1850, but
was not published until after the
war started. He added:
“As an intelligence officer, Gen.
Willoughby was widely and justly
criticized by Pentagon officials as
well as in the papers. His pre
sent article is as misleading and
inaccurate as were some of his in
telligence reports.”
“Army Not Criticised”
Bigart, cabling from Paris, said
his criticisms had been directed
against MacArthur and Willough
by, not the Army as such. He
replied:
“General MacArthur and his
tight little circle of advisers have‘
never been able to stomach criti
cism, whether from a war corre
spondent or the President of the
United States. In an attempt to
silence criticism, they have adopt
ed the line that anyone who ques
tions their judgment is ‘inaccurate,
biased, prejudiced and petulant,
and that any ecriticism of them in
volves some sort of slur on the
whole Army.”
Drew Pearson made the same
distinction in a statement which
read:
“Gen. Willoughby is still smart
ing from my account of how he
immigrated to the U. S. after be
ing forced to flee a Prussian mili
tary school and how he continued
to practice Prussian swagger meth
ods in the U. S. Army. He also
ignores the fact that it was his
faulty intelligence, not the Second
Division’s, which I criticized in
the Yalu river advance. If Wil
loughby’s intelligence had been
‘more accurate, the division rever
would have got in the position
where it was forced to retreat.”
Boyle sald American intelligence
in Korea, for which Willoughby
was responsible, was “tragically
bad.” He said:
“The General's job was to ob
tain information about the Chi
nese and to evaluate it. I thought
then, and 1 still think, that our in
telligence was tragically bad. Gen.
Willoughby, naturally, feels other
wise. In this case, the events
give the answer—the troops ran
into a complete surprise, and were
decisively beaten back. General
ities about ‘bias and prejudice’
cannot outweigh the hard facts of
defeat and the cold statistics of
losses. It was not ‘bias and pre
judice’ that rolled the Army back
across thousands of square miles
of lost ground.”
Sequence of Events
These events took place a year
ago at this time. The sequence
was this:
By early October, the North Ko
rean Army had been smashed into
splinter-groups which were re
treating.
In late October, the first Chinese
troops were encountered. They
were in small numbers, and the
Chinese Red gdvernment said they
were “volunteers.” They halted
the U. N. forward movement
Then there was a lull for three
weeks, during which the main
force of Chinese disappeared.
On Nov. 20, MacArthur laurched
the “Home-by-Christmas” offen
sive. It was immediately stopped.
Three days later, the Army was
in full retreat, with some units
totally cut off. It fell back to a
line below Seoul before it could
regroup.
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DETROIT, Nov. 28 — (AP) —
A shy, but hot-tempered assistant |
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hatchet and knife slayings of his'
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The hunted” youth is Kenneth
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and amateur gardener. He was
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Monday. A medical examiner said
the two women had been slain two
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