Keywords: people Lot-9427-17: A Gift From MacArthur. Francis B. Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, who recently arrived in America for a conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, exhibits a Japanese officer’s saber which he brought with him as a personal gift from General Douglas MacArthur to the President. Part of the sword’s handle trimming was shot away by shrapnel which killed the officer on a Philippines battlefield. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). Lot-9427-17: A Gift From MacArthur. Francis B. Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, who recently arrived in America for a conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, exhibits a Japanese officer’s saber which he brought with him as a personal gift from General Douglas MacArthur to the President. Part of the sword’s handle trimming was shot away by shrapnel which killed the officer on a Philippines battlefield. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). |