DAVID LAWRENCE1951MacArthur Puts Policies Of U. S. in PerspectiveWASHINGTON A breath of fresh air has swept across the country in the person of a man who, without bitterness or rancor, rises above the petty and the irrelevant to state honestly his convictions oh a highly controversial subject of national policy.What Gen. MacArtbur has accomplished by his testimony and by his ready submission to cross examination is to put the whole question of our military policy in a true perspective.Not a word of resentment did he express against the president or anyone else. He brushed aside with a simple statement of facts the many misrepresentations of his position which critics have flung at him.Speaks With CandorNobody can truly claim the right to state Gen. MacArthur s position hereafter unless he has read the 150, 000 words of testimony cohering the three days of hearings.This correspondent has read every word of it and is amazed at the number of things that have been written about the general or his proposals which simply are not true. The atmosphere here is so surcharged with political tactics and with the polemics of partisanship that it is refreshing to find a spokesman who, without regard to how his remarks jibe with the speeches of Republican or Democratic leaders, in the great debate of recent weeks, states with candor and frankness what he really believes.Puzzlement GrowsPeople may differ as to whether he has the right proposals and whether they should be adopted but, after reading the testimony, one is more puzzled than ever that the president should have listened to the smears of the palace guard and tried to destroy the reputation of one of the world s greatest soldiers, if not one of her most dynamic statesmen.The same man who wrote out in longhand on his plane thehistoric speech to Congress and then read it without glasses, the same man who, though 71 years of age, sat for nine hours a day for three successive days and faced a barrage of questions from the Senate s best interrogators, won spontaneous praise from Republicans and Democrats in the committee.Significant Tribute The tribute by Senator Russell of Georgia, Democrat, chairman of the Senate armed services committee, at the end of the final session on Saturday, is significant. He said Gen. MacArthur, I wish to state to you that the three days that you have been here with us are without parallel in my legislative experience. have never seen a man subjected to such a barrage of questions in so many fields and on so many varied subjects. I marvel at your physical endurance. More than that, I have been profoundly impressed by the vastness of your patience and the thoroughness and the frankness with which you have answered all of the questions that have been propounded. We have certainly drawn freely on your vast reservoir of knowledge and experience, not only as a great military captain, but as a civilian administrator of eighty million people. Can Redress Wrong One wonders how such a man could have been summarily dismissed. One finds nowhere in the official record the slightest evidence that he disobeyed a military command or failed to fulfill the highest traditions of our military service. One wonders if President Truman will not be inspired when he has read all the testimony to show the same courage that he showed when he apologized to the marines for an intemperate remark. For the instinct to redress a wrong is the mark of courage and spiritual understanding. Gen. Mac Arthur cannot be restored to his command, of course, but the unworthy manner by which he was abruptly relieved can still be expunged from the record by an act of Christian atonement.