“The Filipino’s on Bataan still regarded MacArthur as the greatest man alive, and his pledge to return was a personal guarantee that their country would be freed. But an increasing number of Americans on Bataan felt he had abandoned them and passed around a parody of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic.’
“Dugout Doug’s not timid, he’s just cautious, not afraid,
He’s protecting carefully the stars that Franklin made.
Four-star generals are rare as good food on Bataan.
And his troops go starving on.”
Toland’s spedific source is not revealed, which I suppose could mean he learned of the parody at some point before the publication of the book and thought it would make a nice addition to his version of events. The sources given for the whole chapter does include "interviews with . . . numerous survivors of the Bataan Death March," and 'Bataan Deatch March,' doctoral thesis of Stanley Lawrence Falk." so maybe one of those is the source.
The apostrophe in "Filipino's" is my transcription error. Not in the original. And the entire excerpt is on pg. 288.
I hate the way that Toland does his notes. You would have to track down all those interviews and other numerous items for the chapter to try and find any reference to the one point you are looking for.
Of course in 1970, you could get away with citation like this.
I read both of those but it was so many ages ago that I no longer have either book. "The Rising Sun" was a 1970's publication while "But Not in Shame" came out in the early 1960's. It's too bad Toland didn't cite a source. The stanza you printed is a word-for-word match to a stanza from Miller's 1949 ballad in "Bataan Uncensored" I posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2830494/posts?page=36#36