Show The DR W OAl t Second Rate Officers UR boys in Korea are arc entitled to the Army's b best st combat officers officers officers cers whose leadership may mean the difference between life and death Yet it is common common talk in hi hithe inthe inthe the Pentagon that some key battle posts are arc manned by second-rate second officers There seems to be a reluctance on the Army's part to send its first team to Korea Though the Army has plenty of crack officers the Korean command went to Gen Walton Walker who happened to be the ranking highest-ranking officer under un der MacArthur and thereby inherited inherited inherited in in- the job Walker served successfully during during during dur dur- ing the last war under the late Gen George S. S Patton Jr However Walkers Walker's fellow generals dont don't think much of him as a great field com com- mander One general summed up the common common common com com- mon opinion of Walker bluntly Walker is a methodical plodding who suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- regular army plug horse denly found himself a lieutenant general The impression is that while Walker is not a bad general he heis heis heis is not a particularly good one Yet the GIs at the front are are re entitled to the best commanding general weve we've got Walkers Walker's chief of staff Is Col Eugene Landrum who vho commanded commanded commanded com com- the division when it landed in France In June 1944 vever he made such a poor showing that he be was relieved re- re relieved relieved re re- of his command within two months and shipped back to the states Later when most of the wartime generals were demoted one rank Landrum was dropped two ranks from major general to colone colonel Yet he be now holds the crucial post as Walkers Walker's chief of staff In Korea Korea Korea Ko Ko- rea because like Walker Landrum happened to be in line for the job Back in Japan the G 2 section is is s General MacArthurs MacArthur's eyes and ears cars Its job is to gather and analyze mil mU- military military intelligence so vital in m time of ol war Yet the G 2 chief In charge of ol this important listening post is Maj Maj Gen Charles Willoughby a strutting heel heel clicker clicker who has been beer accused by subordinates of doctoring doctoring doctoring doctor doctor- ing the intelligence reports to tc please please- rather please rather than inform MacAr MacAr- thur Born in Prussia Willoughby's real name is von Wieden Wiedenbach Wieden- Wieden bach and his principal qualification is the fact that he served under MacArthur on Bataan This is the estimate of fellow generals Explosive McKellar The full story hasn't been told how year old Sen Kenneth McKellar McKellar Mc Me Kellar of Tennessee tried to bop 71 year-old year Congressman Clarence Cannon of Missouri over the head with a gavel It happened behind closed doors while senate and house conferees were trying to iron out differences in the appropriations bill This brought McKellar the senate appropriations appropriations appropriations ap ap- chairman and the house appropriations chairman into violent disagreement With an explosive snort McKellar McKellar McKellar Mc Mc- Kellar a accused c c u use s e d Cannon of making slurring references Then the aged began began began be be- gan spouting e. e expletives which an eyewitness later reported almost peeled the paint off tb the walls One of the milder terms McKellar used to describe Cannon Cannon Cannon Can Can- non was SOB Unabbreviated This was too much for Cannon who announced he wouldn't take such abuse from any man and started after McKellar Simultaneously Simultaneously Simultaneously th the sputtering senator from Tennessee picked up his gavel which he had been using to rap the table and tried to rap Cannon However colleagues separated them before they could do any damage to each other Washington Pipeline General MacArthur was considering considering considering consid consid- ering coming back to the United States just as the Korean war broke out He was interested in an offer oller of a top job at Remington Rand Before the end of the year President Truman plans to set up upa a special board to keep an eye on prices and a new agency to take takeover takeover takeover over the vital job of civilian defense Many top mobsters have been getting careless with their income- income tax returns They have been reporting reporting reporting re re- porting ridiculously small incomes and lumping it all under such general general general gen gen- eral terms as self Mike Reilly famous friend and bodyguard is now quietly quiet quiet- ly working for the interior depart depart- ment Pulling Strings Whether youre you're a 5 per center angling for government contracts or a reserve officer trying to get gel out of a n combat unit it still pays to have an inside track with Maj Gen Harry Vaughan the irrepressible ible White House military aide For e example x amp 1 e here is how Vaughan Is pulling strings inside the Pentagon for Robert C. C Smith of Columbia Mo a n reserve army lieutenant who wants to transfer from the field artillery to the legal I faction I. I |