【115】 原文中の（）内のページ表示は本誌ページです 　Senator Kefauver. I mean would you have sanctioned it? 　General MacArthur. I would ask you to examine your own files to see if you haven't gotten a great many complaints in from juniors in the service of the seniors that are over them. 　Senator Kefauver. Yes, but they always say, "Be sure and don't show this to anybody." 　General MacArthur. Well, once more that is a matter of your discretion. Representative Martin exercised it. 　Senator Kefauver. But my question is, General MacArthur, when you were condcting the Philippine campaign, if your chief of staff----- who was your chief of staff? 　General MacArthur. General Sutherland was my chief of staff. I think he is a West Virginian. 　Senator Kefauver. If he had written to me knowing that I was in a big debate in congress about whether you were right or not in deciding how you were going to make that magnificent reconquest of the Philippines, if he had written to me expressing a different opinion from the one you had, and criticizing even mildly what you had decided to do, knowing that I was going to inject that opinion into a debate, would you have sanctioned him doing so? 　General MacArthur. Certainly. I can't tell you how many times my staff has disagreed with me not only privately but publicly. The only thing I ever required was complete honesty of their opinions. 　Senator Kefauver. You do not think an opinion different from the immediate commander for public debate weakens you in the eyes of the enemy and shows a division ranks? （１６年６月号２３３ページ） 　General MacArthur. I believe there is a certain degree of propriety in those things of course, Senator. 　Senator Kefauver. That is all, Mr. Chairman. 　The Chairman. Senator Lodge. 　Senator Lodge. General MacArthur, first let me say that I think it is a great service to the American people and to the Congress that an officer of your unique experience should be available for advice and counsel. 　I am one of the millions who admire your record, and I believe in particular that your Pacific campaigns were a military masterpiece, and that you accomplished such big results with relatively so little a force. 　I think great good should come from this inquiry. BOMBING OR AIR RECONNAISSANCE ON NORTHERN BANK OF YALU 　Senator Lodge. You have been so clear on this whole question of the Far East that there is only one point with regard thereto that I would like to have elucidated: Whether you still advocate bombing or only air reconnaissance of the enemy bases on the northern bank of the Yalu. 　General MacArthur. I would advocate that the Chinese, the Red Chinese Government, be served notice that if they continued this type of predatory attack in North Korea and refused to consider terms of an armistice and cease fire, that after reasonable period of time we should exercise such military sanctions and economic sanctions as would be necessary to force him to stop. 　That would unquestionably involve bombing of the bases on the other side of the Yalu. 　Senator Lodge. But the proposition has not been approved or disapproved by the Joint Chiefs, has it?