DOUGLAS MacARTHUR - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CIRCA 1952

DOUGLAS MacARTHUR. Photograph signed: "D. MacA." as Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand, Inc. B/w, 9x7. New York City, 1952 October 20. Photograph by Kas Heppner, New York City. Pictures MacArthur at the 44th Annual National Business Show, held at the Grand Central Palace in New York City. MacArthur cut the ribbon to open the show. Yellowed mounting tape remnants at lower blank corners and upper blank margin. Light horizontal creased across image. Overall, fine condition. Accompanied by two newspaper articles relating to MacArthur's appearance at the event. Both picture MacArthur with Judy Davis, a young blind girl, and George Soto, a disabled Navy veteran, who are operating Remington machines. One article is headlined: "Gen. MacArthur 'Invades' the Business Show". Both are captioned at lower margin. At lower margin of one of the articles: "P.S.: The General had 'no comment on the political situation whatsoever.'" Photographs slightly grainy. Glue stains at upper margins of both articles. Overall, fine condition. MacArthur, who served as Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand, Inc. during his retirement, later became Chairman of the Board of Sperry Remington, when Sperry bought out the company in 1955. In the year of this letter, Remington Rand, which was already a leader in the electronic accounting machines market, purchased Engineering Research Associates, giving it a foothold in computer technology as well. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), America's most decorated soldier in WWI and Superintendent of West Point after the war, was Allied Supreme Commander in the South West Pacific (1942, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor in April 1942) and of Occupational Forces in Japan (1945-1951). He became a Five-Star General of the Army in 1944 and accepted the surrender of Japan aboard the battleship Missouri on September 2, 1945. MacArthur was dismissed as Supreme Commander of United Nations forces in Korea by President Truman in April 1951, because of his public statements advocating invasion of China. Upon his return to the U.S. to a hero's welcome, MacArthur continued his outspoken criticism of Truman, and was determined to defeat Truman's Democratic Party in the 1952 presidential campaign. In the summer of 1952, MacArthur had given the keynote address at the Republican National Convention, and he actively supported Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign. Eisenhower, who was elected the month after this show was held, sought MacArthur's advice on the conflict in Korea, but rejected MacArthur's view that military operations should be should be expanded, resulting in MacArthur playing no further role in the Eisenhower administration. Three items.

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