【114】 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２３１ページをご覧ください） 　Senator Kefauver. But from his letter I took it that you knew that it would be released by him in the debate that was going on in this country. 　General MacArthur. I didn't have the faintest idea of whether he would or whether he wouldn't release it. The concept never entered into my head. 　Senator Kefauver. General MacArthur, He said in his letter that there was this discussion going on, he had been in debates on the subject, and in the last paragraph he says in part: ------------------------------------ 　I would deem it a great help if I could have your views on this point, either on a confidential basis or otherwise. Your admirers are legion, and the respect you command is enormous. ------------------------------------ 　In your letter you didn't say anything about it being on a confidential basis, so I take it you must have assumed from his letter it would be made public because he discussed the debate and the argument that was going on. w 　General MacArthur. I never gave it the slightest thought, Senator. It was a matter for his discretion entirely. 　Senator Kefauver. One clause in the letter that strikes me, General MacArthur, is: ----------------------------------------- 　Here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats fight it with words. ----------------------------------------- 　Was that intended to be a slap at the State Deartment or what did you mean by that? 　General MacArthur. It wasn't intended to be anything except a statement of actual facts. 　 （１６年６月号２３２ページ） THE RIGHT AND DISCRETION OF SUBORDINATES IN PUBLICIZING OPPOSITE VIEWS 　Senator Kefauver. General MacArthur, following up the question that Senator McMahon asked, I agree fully, not knowing anything about military matters, however, that you were quite right in presenting your side of the controversy or any question to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and arguing it out; that a major general or a lieutenant general under you would be derelict in his duties if he did not present his point of view to you on some matters affecting the command in your theater, but do you think it proper or would you think it proper for a brigadier or major general under you to take issue with your general concept as the theater commander by writing a letter to a Member of the Congress when he knew that it would be used in the debate about the way your campaign was being carried on？ 　General MacArthur. I wouldn't have the slightest objection to any officer in my command stating his views on any subjects in any way he wished, just so he did it in a courteous, polite way following the normal code of a gentleman's conduct. 　Senator Kefauver. You mean if in the reconquest of the Philippines some major general had a different view about how the whole campaign should have been carried on, had written me a letter, knowing that I was going to publish it and cause a debate about the general strategy of your Pacific campaign, you would have sanctioned what he did? 　General MacArthur. Senator, I think there is not a week goes by that things of that sort don't occur.