Note 95 — Chapter II · The Wonsan Landing
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The following summary of the Wake Island meeting is primarily based on: Gen O. N. Bradley, Comp., Substance of Statements Made at Wake Island Conference on October 15, 1950 (Washington, 1951); and Truman, Memoirs, II, 364–367. These accounts are strongly objected to in MacArthur ltr, 24 Feb 36. For a differing account of the meeting see: C. A. Willoughby and J. Chamberlain, MacArthur 1941–1951 (New York, 1954), 382–383; Whitney, MacArthur, 384–395, 416; and Gen D. MacArthur, “Gen. MacArthur Makes His Reply,” Life, xl, no. 7 (13 Feb 56), 107–108. Participants in the conference besides Truman and MacArthur were: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace; Ambassador Philip Jessup; Ambassador to Korea John Muccio; General Bradley; Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Admiral Arthur W. Radford, CinCPacFlt; Averell Harriman; and BrigGen Courtney Whitney of FECOM Headquarters.