Расследование Сената сделало вывод, что Трумэн, как главнокомандующий, был в своём праве уволить Макартура, но что инициатива исходила не от военных.
"There was no serious disagreement between General MacArthur and the Joint Chiefs of Staff as to military strategy in Korea. The military played no part in initiating or recommending the recall of General MacArthur. The record reveals direct testimony from Secretary Marshall, General Bradley, General Collins, General Vandenberg, and Admiral Sherman on this question. These witnesses testified clearly and unequivocally that the military no more than concurred in a previously made decision to recall General MacArthur." https://fliphtml5.com/krsv/ohdc/basic/51-100
Колоритными высказываниями о Макартуре Трумэн поделился с журналистами в 1960:
"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail." As for MacArthur's attempts to conduct his own grandiose foreign policy in the Pacific, Truman said: "I've given that a lot of thought and finally decided that there were times when he wasn't right in his head. And there was never anybody around him to keep him in line. He didn't have anyone on his staff who wasn't an ass kisser. Why, hell, if he'd had his way, he'd have had us in the Third World War and blown up two-thirds of the world." https://web.archive.org/web/20080206223904/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908217,00.html
"There was no serious disagreement between General MacArthur and the Joint Chiefs of Staff as to military strategy in Korea. The military played no part in initiating or recommending the recall of General MacArthur. The record reveals direct testimony from Secretary Marshall, General Bradley, General Collins, General Vandenberg, and Admiral Sherman on this question. These witnesses testified clearly and unequivocally that the military no more than concurred in a previously made decision to recall General MacArthur."
https://fliphtml5.com/krsv/ohdc/basic/51-100
Колоритными высказываниями о Макартуре Трумэн поделился с журналистами в 1960:
"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."
As for MacArthur's attempts to conduct his own grandiose foreign policy in the Pacific, Truman said: "I've given that a lot of thought and finally decided that there were times when he wasn't right in his head. And there was never anybody around him to keep him in line. He didn't have anyone on his staff who wasn't an ass kisser. Why, hell, if he'd had his way, he'd have had us in the Third World War and blown up two-thirds of the world."
https://web.archive.org/web/20080206223904/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908217,00.html
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