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...Harold S. Quigley America Encounters Japan. From Perry to MacArthur . By William L. Neumann . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1963 . viii , 353 . $6.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS write Communist party history on the mainland today...

...; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. viii, 438. Illustrations; Maps; Index. $6.95. These Reminiscences, described correctly as "neither history, biography nor a diary" (Preface, p. v) tell the MacArthur story as he undoubtedly hoped and expected to have...

...Wesley R. Fishel The Roosevelt-MacArthur Conflict . By James K. Eyre, Jr. , Chambersburg, Pennsylvania : The Craft Press, Inc. , 1950 . 234 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 257 cratic currents, and both unconscious and conscious...

...John Curtis Perry Winners in Peace, MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan . By Richard B. Finn . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xvii–xxi, 413 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 921 Winners in Peace...

...Michael A. Barnhart Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General . By Michael Schaller . New York : Oxford University Press , 1989 . xiv, 320 pp. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 8 1 1 work on party-military relations...

...Kyung Cho Chung The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War . By John W. Spanier . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1959 . xii, 311 . Map, Notes, Critical Bibliography, Index. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 362...

... of a type of British "go-it-alone" school of thought which we too often connect only with the Bevanites and leftwing Labour. This is a fascinating and important book. In Britain too the Far East is a fine subject for controversy. Duke University THEODORE ROPP Douglas MacArthur. By CLARK LEE and RICHARD...

...John B. Oliver Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 Conquered Press: The MacArthur Era in Japanese Journalism . By William J. Coughlin . Palo Alto, California : Pacific Books , 1952 . 165 . Appendices, bibliography, index. $3.00. BOOK REVIEWS 231...

... conclusion. While MacArthur's hope that Japan would become Christian was not realized, Professor Moore does make a very reasonable suggestion that the provisions in Japan's postwar constitution, which made the emperor a symbol of the nation, were motivated in part by MacArthur's hope that the emperor would...

... important figures) have occupied in turn the center of the political stage and exerted great influence, for good or ill, on the course of recent Japanese political history. Throughout the entire period from Meiji to MacArthur Japan, however, one solitary figure stood by the proscenium arch, occasionally...

... could be better termed the Teflon General) was kept in the Southwest Pacific to minimize his press exposure. Truman found a similar logic: better a MacArthur confusing and complicating occupation policy in Japan than one actively running for office in 1948 and then, until April 1951, better a MacArthur...

... of research on the Occupation period is the volume being edited by Robert E. Ward with contributions by fifteen American and Japanese scholars. Symposia on the Occupation have been held since 1975 by the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia. See Redman L. H. , ed., The Occupation of Japan and its...

... and was there any logic to this development? What was the policy of the United States on such issues as the Institution of the Emperor and the reform of the Japanese Constitution, particularly in relation to the Far Eastern Commission? How did the attitude of General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander...

..., and by friction with the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP), General Douglas MacArthur and his senior staff over MacArthur's refusal to honor the international agreement establishing the ACJ. The diary makes more pointed and personal the public criticisms he leveled at the American occupation in Japan...

... surrounding the Tiananmen suppression might cause some of the authors to reevaluate their positive estimates of the Chinese reforms. Nevertheless, this collection is overall a worthwhile addition that I intend to use in my courses. WILLIAM R. HEATON Dumfries, Virginia Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern...

... with the foreign policy of the United States in the Far East. The authors have analyzed in so far as possible at the present time the momentous issues in the controversy between General MacArthur and President Truman. As a result, Rovere and Schlesinger have written the most effective defense of Administration...

... and the excellent planning which went into Okinawa. All in all, this is a solid and competent job. If it seems to be a bit high level, one must remember that it is dealing with high level matters. There is some very interesting material on the struggle between MacArthur and the Navy for the control of our only real...

... Derevyanko. Frustrated with the impasse, Ball publicly criticized American policy and in July 1947 openly challenged his superior, Evatt, for supporting MacArthur's proposal for a peace treaty with Japan. More broadly, Ball questioned SCAP's thesis that Japan had been effectively disarmed and democratized...

... an analysis of "education" in the narrow sense of the school system than it is a broad and often quite personal survey of the clash between traditional Japanese defenders of the emperor system and General Douglas MacArthur's evangelical Americanism. Using newly opened archival material and writing topically...

... was the work of a "MacArthur-Roxas axis." "When one considers that MacArthur 'liberated' Roxas," Agoncillo begins in a hypothetical vein, "one inevitably arrives at the conclusion that. . . the arrogant and egotistical general was playing dirty politics" (p. 212). After three more linked suppositions...