ABSTRACT
The relief of General MacArthur was more than the relief of a military commander who had displeased the civilian head of the United States: General MacArthur was a symbol to the peoples of the Far East of the interest of the United States in that part of the world. In the middle of April 1951, General MacArthur received a message that, upon a decision by the president, he was being relieved. Some few days later, General Simmons received a message from friends in Washington, DC, that the president had been so incensed at General MacArthur that he had torn up the author's nomination because of close association with General MacArthur, which of course was the president's prerogative. In the part of March 1951, a medical group arrived from the United States, including some individuals from the American Medical Association.
