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and a NEWS OF THE WORLD NBC 4/11/51 7:30 PM Morgan Beatty I can report to you on the very highest authority that the high command decided to agree on the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur for one reason only, namely, he made the mistake of opposing the nation's foreign policy publicly, persistently. That is not the function of a soldier. The high command regards his military achievement as strictly wonderful, nothing less. The point with the President and with all his diplomatic and military advisers in Washington is this--they disagree with Gen. MacArthur that we should enlarge the war in Asia by direct action. The military advisers to the chief executive inist that such a course would risk all the land forces of the United States in a possible endless conflict on the steps of Asia. (Reports on messages received by Congressmen and on Republican meeting on Capitol Hill) . Curiously there is a split, even here, where there is a choosing up of sides. Sen. Duff of Pennsylvania openly supported the President's decision. The present head of the Republican party, Gov. Dewey of New York, struck hard at Washington's bungling in the Far East but he did not heartily endorse the policies suggested by Gen. MacArthur. Likewise, Gov. Earl Warren of California said only that this is the sad ending of the military career of the world's greatest soldier, nothing to agree with MacArthur's proposed policies. And be it noted that the three last named men may have more to say than any others about the heavy convention votes of their states at the next Republican convention and not one of them endorsed Gen. MacArthur's proposed