CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 26, 1942; MacArthur Awarded Medal of Honor:

Kingsport Times

Kingsport, Tennessee, Thursday/ March 26, 1942

We'll Win Or Die/ Says M'Arthur

Pledges Full

Resources

Of America

Canberra — ff — General Douglas

MacArthur pledged tonight that

"there can be no compromise; we

shall win or we shall die, and to

this end I pledge you the full resources

of all the mighty power of

my country and all the blood of my

countrymen."

At the height of a historic dinner

in parliament house, the first

American commander ever to lead

united forces of United States and

Australian troops declared his confidence—

the "unbreakable faith of

a free man"—in ultimate victory.

MocArthur Honored

Washington — AP— A Congressional

Medal of Honor, the nation's

highest decoration for valor

under fire, is going to General

MacArthur today by order of

President Roosevelt----

BULLETINS

Recalls Envoys

Bern, Switzerland— -AP— Turkey

has recalled her ambassadors to

Moscow and to the Axis nations

to discuss "important political

problems," the Rome newspaper

II Giornale D'ltalia reported tonight

in a dispatch from Istanbul.

30 Planes Destroyed

London — -T — Thirty German

dive-bombers were destroyed or

damaged yesterday in one of the

greatest air battles ever fought

over embattled Malta, the air

ministry reported tonight.

'Nazis Got Formula'

Washington— .AP — Thurman Arnold,

assistant attorney general,

testified today that the Standard

Oil Company of New Jersey

had developed a synthetic rubber

that was cheaper, better and

more plentiful than the Nazis

had and had turned it over to the

German interests before the

United States entered the war.