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Tokyo, Japan: Very Good-. 1951. First Edition. 4 pp. Pages; Tokyo: 1951. Four-page full-sized newspaper on surprisingly good-quality newsprint -- somewhat toned. Published daily for U. S. Forces in Japan and Korea. General Douglas MacArthur was releaved of his Command by US President Harry Truman on April 11, 1951, ending a 52-year career in the US Army, with service including but certainly not limited to the two World Wars, the Occupation of Japan and the Korean action -- a war in all but formal name. Flying back from Korea via San Francisco on 18 April 1951, MacArthur flew with his family to Washington, D. C. , where he was scheduled to address a joint session of Congress. There are two photographic reproductions of the former General at Washington's National Airport in this issue of '' This farewell trip to Washington DC was his first visit to the continental United States since 1937. On 19 April, MacArthur made his last official appearance in a farewell address to the U. S. Congress presenting and defending his side of his disagreement with Truman over the conduct of the Korean War. His speech was interrupted by fifty ovations. MacArthur ended his address stating: "I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away". And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye. " The secondary story in this newspaper covers MacArthur's subsequent flight to New York City, where he was scheduled to be honored by a 19-mile ticker tape parade on April 20, as this paper was in the press. The parade was one of the largest New York public gatherings of the twentieth century, with a crowd estimated at seven and a half million. There is other coverage in this issue, of course, including reports of ongoing action in Korea, both by air and land. There are schedules for movie theatre times and attractions for Tokyo and Okinawa, radio schedule for Tokyo station "AFRS - "710 on your dial. " Additionally, six popular cartoon strips appear, along with several sports stories from the States, including an account of the running of the 1951 Boston Marathon -- won, interestingly enough, by a 19 year old schoolboy from Hiroshima, Shigeki Tanaka, who became one of the youngest Boston Marathon champions in history, winning the 55th annual race in 2: 27: 45. Mr. Tanaka had been a witness to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; unlike so many of whom that might be said, he survived until his death at age 91 on October 4, 2022. His was one of the first victories in International sporting contests by a Japanese after the Second World War. A scarce newspaper. We will send it folded -- as it has been since 1951. .; Americana and American History, Military History, Most Recent Listing.
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