Chapter 28 Ultimatum to China

Commander MacArthur looked down on China and Chinese soldiers. This kind of contempt is not ordinary contempt. That's called dismissive. Because since modern times, Chinese soldiers have hardly shown their faces in the great powers. There are many embarrassing things. In the first Opium War, the Qing Dynasty, which had millions of troops, was beaten to death by 19,000 British soldiers who came from afar, and was forced to sign the "Nanjing Treaty". Since then, there has been almost no victory. No, it was never undefeated again. The Second Opium War, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1995, and the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces were all beaten to the brim.

Anyway, it's not shit, it's urine flow; The fart does not roll, and the urine also flows. The Anti-Japanese War was won, but MacArthur believed that it was the result of the Americans participating in the war, and it was the credit of the Americans and MacArthur, not the Chinese soldiers. Not only Commander MacArthur thinks so, but the entire United States, the entire West, and even the whole world think so. American credit. Thanks to the atomic bomb. And the credit for the Soviet Union's entry into the war. On June 30, 1950, only five days after the start of the Korean War, MacArthur visited the Chinese territory of Taiwan without asking the president for instructions, and held talks with Chiang Kai-shek in a pompous manner.

During the talks, he asked Jiang to send 32,000 troops to North Korea to help Syngman Rhee fight the Korean War. This incident aroused great resentment from President Truman. Eat a lot.I have no objection to helping Syngman Rhee, and it is up to my president to decide. How is it the responsibility of your old and elderly Commander MacArthur! What are you Lao Mai (selling) rice cakes! Suggestion rejected. Of course, Lao Mai's domineering attitude and practice of (selling) rice cakes not only stimulated the President of the United States, but also stimulated Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai.

The most ridiculous thing is that when the Truman administration felt that the war was hopeless and was about to end the war with peace talks, this lovely Commander MacArthur actually issued an ultimatum to China that was not an ultimatum. He claimed: "It is necessary to extend military operations to China's coastal and inland bases." In other words, he is preparing to attack Chinese territory and start a full-scale war with China. It is the winner who issues an ultimatum to the loser, how can the loser issue an ultimatum to the winner!This lovely General MacArthur can do it.

Regarding this "ultimatum", President Truman quit before Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai had time to take care of him. Declaring war on another country, issuing an ultimatum, such a major international political event, is it your front-line commander who has the final say, or the president who has the final say? This matter, let alone the United States, should not be allowed or should not be allowed in any country. President Truman, who was so angry that his calf turned, rushed to the White House immediately, held a meeting, and signed a dismissal order on April 10, 1951, dismissing MacArthur from his post.

Moreover, Truman informed the MacArthur commander through a loudspeaker broadcast. After uttering this bad breath, the president's calf seemed to turn around. The time required was tight, and the MacArthur commander didn't even have time to hold the usual US military commander handover ceremony, let alone deliver the usual farewell speech to his troops. When leaving the United Nations Command in Tokyo, there was no high-profile farewell, no unforgettable cry. The former MacArthur commander, in "Song of Everlasting Regret", "Pipa Walk". He and his wife boarded the plane desertedly, headed in the opposite direction of the battlefield, and left sadly and lonely.