Chapter 559 – An Assist from Emperor MacArthur

If one wanted to find a similar figure to MacArthur in Britain, that person was no other than Alan Wilson’s esteemed father-in-law, General Mountbatten, the incumbent fourth actually unknown Secretary of State for the Sea.

Far East outbreak of this war in the U.S. military commander, in addition to MacArthur, simply do not do the second choice. When chatting with Mountbatten, Allen Wilson also asked his father-in-law, as an aside, what he thought of this five-star emperor.

“Him? Is a very narcissistic person!” Mountbatten frowned slightly, he didn’t like MacArthur as a person for same-sex reasons, “He should have taken off his uniform and gone into politics instead of fighting. As far as being a general goes, he’s about as good as it gets I guess, and while our limited number of meetings shouldn’t judge anything, I was impressed with his desire to perform.”

Is this why two similar people can’t be friends? Alan Wilson was a professional public servant, and although he wanted to laugh out loud, he still had a bemused look on his face.

“By the way, MacArthur actually doesn’t have much of a smoking habit in private.” Mountbatten leaked at his son-in-law, “His big pipe of the kind that usually appears in the newspapers is not used at all in private. Also there is the impression of the leather jacket and the fancy Filipino marshal’s hat that are his public front. The man was most adept at camping up his image, and if there is anything to be said for MacArthur’s character, it is that he was a man who took absolutely no prisoners, and had no setbacks in life.”

Just like you! Of course Allen Wilson just said it in his mind, not to General Mountbatten’s face.

“If he has never suffered a loss in life to say, now we can judge, he will try to do everything to make President Truman to find him will face the opportunity, this war is not so easy to finish.”

Alan Wilson’s brain in the middle of a flash of light, this is not another opportunity to write a report?

In fact, MacArthur’s behavior of having to expand the war to find face is similar to the reason why Mountbatten was hostile to Japan all his life. Both because of a lifetime of smooth sailing, the Earth protagonist template in the middle of a big loss was remembered.

The reason why Mountbatten wasn’t a big fan of MacArthur was also because MacArthur represented the United States, and to some extent frustrated Mountbatten’s attempts to hit Japan’s soil to liquidate the entire country. This resulted in Mountbatten not enjoying the return of the king that MacArthur’s return to the Philippines felt like.

Above all, the early surrender of Japan was a great disappointment to the large number of British represented by Mountbatten. It was hard to end the European theater of war, just waiting for Japan to make the United States also suffer a heavy blow, and bring the major warring countries back to a level, Japan even surrendered.

For the country for the people of Allen Wilson, immediately took out a, about MacArthur’s own character analysis report, but also pulled General Mountbatten co-signed, this report concluded that MacArthur’s past experience to analyze, to him as the commander-in-chief of the army, resulting in the scale of the war is uncontrollable.

It was a secret report, with the driest part of it provided by General Mountbatten himself, today’s Secretary of State for the Sea.

On the question of whether U.S. President Harry S. Truman could control MacArthur, the report stated that it would be very difficult. Truman was not a very powerful president. There was not much that could be done in front of the Establishment generals of the U.S. military.

Because this report involved Mountbatten himself, Allen Wilson was hand-delivered to the Cabinet Secretary before it was sent to Prime Minister Adderley.

“Actually, it’s not a bad thing for Britain to have this five-star admiral as the Commander-in-Chief, is it?” Alan Wilson, who submitted the report, sighed.

If it had been another general, perhaps this war would not have lasted so long even if it had inevitably expanded. But in MacArthur’s place, this outcome would have been almost inevitable.

After a lifetime of smooth sailing, MacArthur was driven back to the 38th Parallel once again, he would never end the war so easily, after all, Emperor Mac thought he had the stature of a great emperor, and could not afford to suffer this kind of loss in his glorious life.

MacArthur repeatedly sabotaged Truman’s attempts to end the war, and was ultimately dismissed solely because MacArthur had completely disobeyed the White House, among other things, including, but not limited to, publicly delivering a speech of ultimatums while Truman was preparing to negotiate.

A few days after this report was turned in, a precise assist from Emperor MacArthur arrived. A British newspaper reprinted an inside story from an American newspaper, and this one went something like this, that Emperor Mak had sailed to Fraud Island and had a secret talk with the Changkungs.

Throughout his life, Emperor Mack’s routine operation of starting to blow up without a shadow of a thing was just what Britain needed at the present time to avoid sending in ground troops, and the threat of a widening of the scale of the war under the personal care of Whitehall had been given real evidence by this unsympathetic operation of Emperor Mack’s.

It was only at this time that the report on Mountbatten’s own signature appeared before Prime Minister Airdrie and the ministers. Such an operation came from the McTimber, which made the Labor Cabinet, in correspondence with the earlier report, deeply doubt the reliability of the assurances that the United States was controlling the scale of the war.

“What the hell is he up to?” President Truman complained to Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the midst of the White House, the symbol of American power, “Is this what a soldier is supposed to do? A general of our country, going straight into a job that involves diplomacy? What is our country then? A military government?”

The newspaper in Truman’s hand was the one reporting the news of MacArthur’s arrival on Swindle Island.

Only a few days earlier, Truman had just met with MacArthur on Wake Island, near Hawaii today, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 10,000 miles from the U.S. mainland.

After you get off the plane, it’s supposed to be that when these two men meet, you’re a general, he’s the president and commander in chief of the three armed forces, it’s always okay to give a military salute, isn’t it? This is also the rule, no, MacArthur just gently held Truman’s arm, even if it is saluted. Then when the two men sat down to talk, Truman was there like a schoolboy, spreading out his notebook and taking notes, and MacArthur was there alone talking about his strategy and tactics.

None of that mattered, but the fact that MacArthur was doing this was more than Truman could stand, and who gives a general that kind of power?

“Dear President, word has just come from Britain expressing doubts about the ability of the United States to control the scale of the war, which is a sort of formal rejection of our wish to send ground troops in support. The reason is the report you hold in your hands!” Dean Acheson held out the telegram with a bitter smile and placed it in front of Truman.

“Of course Britain says that it is indeed time to establish the common defense mechanism of the Allies as soon as possible, as well as the merger of the three occupied territories, and from this point of view, this war is not without its rewards.”

Truman listened to Dean Acheson’s words, thought for a moment and sighed, “Well, it’s not without gains. Britain wants to use these two concessions in exchange for avoiding sending ground troops into the war, so let’s not push too hard. But we have to be careful about Britain enlisting Canada and Australia to take a common position.”

There was no point in commenting on British timidity now, and Truman understood that the current fact that American troops kept retreating made Britain skeptical of American fighting ability.

And all he had to do now was to break the British skepticism and prove that the strength of the United States could not be doubted. Prove it to Britain, but also to Canada and Australia, and to the whole free world.

So Truman, although he disliked MacArthur very much, still had to give MacArthur his support. As a president, he still understood that it was impossible not to support MacArthur at this time.

The biggest reason is also that MacArthur’s prestige in American folklore is particularly high, and for a long time MacArthur’s management of his personal image really made Americans trust this maverick general very much.

America’s agreement to Britain’s support with the Royal Navy and Air Force came at the same time as the news of the fall of Daejeon in Korea. Allen Wilson, who took out the map, knew that Daejeon was already considered a city in the center of Korea’s location.

The fall of Daejeon is enough to prove that South Korea is a defeat, after all, Seoul is geographically very close to the border line, two days on the loss of defense is considered to be justifiable, can be said to be unprepared for the surprise attack. Daejeon was already considered a city in the center of South Korea, and the fact that this city had been captured was enough for anyone to see that the situation on the peninsula had become extremely dire for the United States.

“Thank you Emperor Mak!” Allen Wilson at this time especially thanked Emperor Mak’s fraudulent island trip, if it is not this American version of General Mountbatten, improvised performance of such a show, so that pay close attention to see what advantageous conditions can be exploited on the United Kingdom seized, then about whether to send ground troops to participate in the war, it is estimated that there will be both sides back and forth for a while to force the matter.

The point is that Emperor Mai’s special position in the U.S. military was seized by Britain, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman had no choice but to back him up, and that’s all it took to recognize Britain’s attitude of staying out of the fray.

“It even occurs to me that there is a case for a Labor victory at the next general election.” Alan Wilson stroked his polished chin.

By now, the matter of whether or not to send ground troops into the war could be considered to have officially come to an end. This matter could naturally be avoided forever as long as it could be avoided in the first place.

Anyway, Allen Wilson didn’t believe that Britain would suddenly have a guilty conscience and fight alongside the Adversary once the American army had really suffered a loss.

Even Churchill would never do such a thing, and it was even more unlikely that Prime Minister Adderley would do it. It would be more in keeping with Britain’s usual style to say something like gloating because it had avoided joining the war itself while the United States had suffered a great loss.