【116】 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２３３ページをご覧ください） 　General MacArthur. I have basic directives that we shall not bomb beyond the Yalu. 　Senator Lodge. And so when you were listing your four recommendations, in your speech to the Congress, you mentioned air reconnaissance, did you not? 　General MacArthur. Yes. 　Senator Lodge. Because that had been approved by the Joint Chiefs, is that correct? 　General MacArthur. The Joint Chiefs had approved that; yes, that is in their recommendations of January 12. 　Senator Lodge. I am just trying to establish why in your speech you recommended air reconnaissance in those four points, and did not recommend bombing. The quotation in the speech was: 　 （１６年６月号２３４ページ） 　-------------------------------------------------------- 　Third. Removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of Chinese coastal areas and of Manchuria. 　-------------------------------------------------------- 　General MacArthur. What I said was this: 　-------------------------------------------------------- 　Apart from military needs as I saw it, to neutralize the sanctuary protection given the enemy north of the Yalu, I felt that military necessity 　-------------------------------------------------------- and then these four points. 　Senator Lodge. Yes; and the third of those points was air reconnaissance. 　General MacArthur. That's right. 　Senator Lodge. And not bombing , and I ask you did you not make that recommendation in that way because that was what the Joint Chiefs had agreed to, whereas the Joint Chiefs had not agreed to bombing? 　Is that correct? 　General MacArthur. No, sir. It happened that my views coincided with those of the Joint Chiefs as they made them on January 12. 　Senator Lodge. Both as regards bombing, and reconnaissance? 　General MacArthur. No. These four points that I listed here coincided with what the Chiefs recommended. 　Senator Lodge. That's right. 　General MacArthur. I think, in　my thinking, in addition. Potential Of The United States Air Force 　Senator Lodge. I see. 　That is the point I wanted to have cleared up. 　Do you think that our Air Force, today, is big enough to undertake bombing mission in the Far East, and at the same time retain enough power to act as a deterrent to the Kremlin by being able to threaten the Soviet war-making potential? 　Do you think it is big enough to do both of those things? 　General MacArthur. I think that it is big enough to handle the situation in the Far East without serious detriment to any other program we have. 　Senator Lodge. Do you believe that effective bombing could be undertaken against Manchuria with the planes that are presently detailed to the Far East theater, and that there were enough planes there to do the job now? 　General MacArthur. I believe we could be very destructive with what we have. It might be necessary to sweeten it up a little, but we could do a tremendous damage with what we have. [I might say that of our B-29 bombers, the limited area of North Korea gave them so little play that we returned half of North Korea gave the so little play that we returned half of our B-29s to the United States. We had the four Groups, and we returned two of them, because they had no opportunity, in the limited area of Korea, to effectively operate.]