【113】 原文中の（）内のページ表示は本誌ページです （和訳は１６年６月号２３０ページをご覧ください） 　Senator Kefauver. Then I take it your feeling is while you, of course, were not in touch with the Chiang government directly during the time before he left the mainland of China, that you do feel there probably has been some improvement in at least the spirit of his government?. 　General MacArthur. There isn't any question that he is trying to follow the lines of liberalism in Government. Just before I left Tokyo, he requested that the expert we had on land reform, which turned out so splendidly in Japan, that that expert who was responsible for the results in Japan should be loaned to the Formosan people so that they could put the same land reform that we had in Japan into effect. 　 He was leaving the day before I was relieved. THE ORDER OF MARCH 20 AND LETTER TO REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN 　Senator Kefauver. General MacArthur, I want to, if possible, get the record straight as to one thing. I do not believe you have been asked about it. 　 That is, that when you wrote the letter on March 20 to Congressman Martin, had you received the information from the State Department of the same day that any further statements by you must be coordinated as prescribed in the order of December 6, or do you remember? 　General MacArthur. I had not. 　Senator Kefauver. Do you know when you received the information given you the 20th of March 1951? 　General MacArthur. I think it was the 25th, Senator. 　Senator Kefauver. But you did not feel that the letter to Congressman Martin would have required coordinating his letter as required by the order of March 20? I mean you did not feel that the order of March 20 affected things like your letter to Congressman Martin? 　 （１６年６月号２３１ページ） 　General MacArthur. Not in the slightest. 　Senator Kefauver. In any event----- 　General MacArthur. I see nothing in reviewing the case with all the information I had, how the letter to Congressman Martin was affected in any degree by any directive that I ever received. 　Senator Kefauver. So even if the directive of the 20th of March had been received before you wrote the letter, you would have written it in any event? 　General MacArthur. That I couldn't tell you. It might have had some influence to the extent that----- 　Senator Kefauver. Well, in any event the letter of Congressman Martin apparently was not given to the public until April 13, so that if you had thought the directive of March 20 should have required you not to have written the letter, you could have recalled it or asked him not to release it? 　General MacArthur. Senator, as I said yesterday, my letter to Congressman Martin was merely a routine communication such as I turn out by the hundreds. It made so little impression upon me, as I said yesterday, that when I heard one of my staff officers saying there had been some criticism of what I had said to him, I had to go into the files. I didn't even recall what the circumstance was. 　 It was a casual letter in reply to a request from a distinguished Member of the body, and I would have honored it.