Douglas MacArthur II
Douglas MacArthur 2nd ( born July 5, 1909 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, † November 15, 1997 in Washington, DC ) was a United States Ambassador.
Life
Douglas MacArthur was the son of Mary McCalla and Arthur MacArthur III and the nephew of Douglas MacArthur. He attended Milton Academy and graduated at Yale College in 1932 as Master of History and Business Administration from. He was a few months working for the Merchant Navy and more than two years as a lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. On August 21, 1934, he married Laura Louise Barkley, daughter of albums W. Barkley. In 1935, he joined the Foreign Service and was vice-consul in Vancouver. From 1936 to 1937 he was vice-consul in Naples in Fascist Italy.
In 1937 he was transferred to Paris. 1942 MacArthur was accredited as a third-class Secretary and Charge d'Affaires at the Vichy regime. Laura MacArthur was therefore described as wife of the ambassador. When the Wehrmacht with the company Anton on 10 and 11 November 1942, occupied southern France and the government of Philippe Pétain moved in Sigmaringen Castle, he was interned with the rest of the U.S. embassy. In 1944, he was replaced with the M / S Gripsholm over Lisbon and came on March 16, 1944 in New York harbor. In 1944 he was a political advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the Battle of Paris MacArthur headed until 1948, the department policies of the U.S. Embassy in France.
From 1948 to 1949, Douglas MacArthur Secretary first class in Brussels. In 1949, he headed the department of Western Europe in the U.S. State Department. In 1950 he was Deputy Head of the Department of Regional Affairs. From 1951 to 1953 he was a political advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the North Atlantic Council at the Palais de Chaillot. He participated in a conference that led to the signing of the SEATO, part and worked at the Austrian State Treaty with.
The framework for his work as ambassador in Tokyo from 1957 to 1961 formed a 1952 treaty signed between the United States and Japan. MacArthur acted the mutual assistance pact between the two countries with which was signed in 1960. Kishi Nobusuke had invited President Eisenhower to the entry into force of the Treaty to Tokyo. The contract was met with parts of the Japanese population to protest. On June 10, 1960 the advance party, consisting of Thomas E. Stephens and James Hagerty, stopped on their way from Tokyo Haneda Airport to U.S. Embassy by protesters for 15 minutes and continued on her way with a helicopter on. Kishi Nobusuke withdrew the invitation for Eisenhower and came back a week later as Prime Minister.
During his time as ambassador in Brussels from 1961 to 1965 MacArthur coordinated the operation Dragon Rouge and Dragon Noir. From March 14 1965 to March 6, 1967, he served as Assistant Secretary of State dealt with the relations with the Congress in the U.S. State Department. On May 24, 1967 to September 16, 1969, he was ambassador in Vienna.
From 1969 to 1972 he was ambassador in Tehran. With U.S. loans and U.S. arms to the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became one of the powerful neighbors of the Persian Gulf. In October 1971 was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the 2500 anniversary of the Iranian monarchy hold. In January 1972 MacArthur made in a telegram clearly the significant importance a visit by Richard Nixon in Pahlavi MacArthur would have acted as a broker between the oil companies and the Shah's regime. As on November 30, 1970, the passenger car with Laura and Douglas MacArthur nährerte her residence, MacArthur knew an ambush, the driver instructed the vehicle to accelerate was thrown and firing shots through the rear window a hatchet. On February 9, 1972, Iranian military court sentenced four persons, among others, for attempted kidnapping to life imprisonment and 16 more to three to ten years in prison.
1972 Douglas MacArthur was forced to retire. In June 1988 he expressed in a letter to George P. Shultz out of his concern for the order situation of the U.S. defense industry.