Talk:Frederick E. Morgan

DYK ideas
Some suggestions:
 * ...that Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan oversaw the initial development of plans for Operation Overlord during World War II?
 * ...that General Bernard Montgomery regarded the initial plan for Operation Overlord developed under the command of Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan as being unworkable but later adopted most of its key features?
 * ...that Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan was widely believed to have been accidentally appointed the British Controller of Atomic Energy instead of General Sir William Duthie Morgan?

I particularly like the third option, though it's a bit disrespectful... Nick-D (talk) 07:01, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Self-exculpatory section
The section on Morgan's position at UNRRA is highly slanted to exculpate Morgan using his own autobiography as a source. It also provides a biased overview of his role in post-war Germany by focusing on his dismissal without actually outlining his accomplishments or lack thereof.Merrybrit (talk) 23:40, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * It's pretty damning as it stands, and draws on a variety of sources. What additional things do you think it should say? Hawkeye7   (discuss)  05:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * It's not balanced, besides one paragraph relating the episode, it spends five paragraphs based purely on his self-exculpatory biography and one Time magazine article to justify his remarks, claim that they were journalistic "lies" and so on. It is highly tendentious to quote at length his bitter memoir (not my characterisation but ODNB (Brian Bond, p. 114)) about supposed Jewish conspiracies with Russian connivance to subvert the UNRRA to promote "Zionist aggression." Also his concern about "the inefficiency of the United Nations organisation" is referenced to Brian Bond in ODNB but is nowhere to be found in my printed copy of it. It also wasn't only the press who viewed his comments as anti-Semitic. Chaim Weizmann, leader of the World Zionist Organisation, called it "palpably anti-Semitic"1. Furthermore, the last sentence in the section ' A member of his staff said that "to serve such an outfit is degradation beyond description. In fact, [Morgan wrote], to have been rejected for such service I have always felt to have been a high honour."' is completely unclear and ungrammatical. I believe this whole section should be rewritten to achieve a balanced point of view. Merrybrit (talk) 08:58, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note that most of this section was inserted by an anon editor, 63.80.2.81, in practically his one and only wiki contribution about ten years ago. Merrybrit (talk) 09:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * If there are no further comments, I will go ahead and rewrite it per WP:BOLD. Merrybrit (talk) 10:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Go right ahead, but be sure to provide proper references. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  11:12, 9 November 2021 (UTC)