General Robert Eichelberger, a division and later on an army commander under Duoglas MacArthur in the South Pacific during World War II, seldom mentioned MacArthur by name in his letters to his wife.
<p>In London, during the night of Monday, 5 December 1921, there occured one of those sudden changes in the weather which Londoners come to accept as part of their long inconclusive battle against the winter. </p>