Shifting the Blame
Clarence
Y. H. Lo, in Journal of Political and Mili- tary Sociology (Fall 1979), Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 111.601 15.
Was General Douglas MacArthur "stretching" his orders in late November 1950, when he attempted to drive north to Korea's border with China on the Yalu River? His critics so contend. But according to UCLA sociologist Lo, recently declassified U.S. documents show that the Truman administration explicitly supported MacArthur's ill-fated...