1:30:17
Would you like to use
my binoculars, sir?
1:30:20
No, thank you.
1:30:22
I've seen all
I have to see.
1:30:25
General,
what happens next, sir?
1:30:28
My father was asked
that same question...
1:30:30
when he found himself
surrounded in the Civil War.
1:30:33
He said, "The situation
is simple and apparent.
1:30:37
"The enemy is closing on me
from three sides,
1:30:40
and my plan
is to fight like hell. "
1:30:43
Now with the threat
of annihilation temporarily forestalled,
1:30:46
MacArthur pays a worried visit
to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
1:30:50
leader of the Nationalist
Chinese on Formosa.
1:30:54
Son of a bitch, that's a goose step
they're doing.
1:30:56
Here it is felt the
foundation is being constructed...
1:31:00
for Sino-American
military cooperation.
1:31:02
Damn it! Didn't we send MacArthur
to Formosa to do just the opposite?
1:31:06
Call off Chiang and tell him he couldn't send
his troops into mainland China or anywhere?
1:31:10
We didn't send him over there to
forge his own personal alliances.
1:31:12
Hell, that sounds like we're concluding
some kind of mutual defense treaty.
1:31:17
Mr. Secretary, I want you to radio
a message to His Majesty MacArthur.
1:31:21
What's the matter with them
back there?
1:31:24
Have they lost their nerve?
I know all about Chiang.
1:31:27
If he had two horns
and a tail...
1:31:29
we should use him
as long as he's anticommunist.
1:31:33
We can reform him later.
1:31:37
It's my destiny
to defeat Communism,
1:31:40
and only God or those Washington
politicians will keep me from doing it.
1:31:44
You didn't
read this one, did you?
1:31:46
It's a letter to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
1:31:49
"Nothing could be more fallacious
than the threadbare argument...
1:31:52
"by those who advocate appeasement
and defeatism in the Pacific...
1:31:55
"that if we defend Formosa,
we alienate continental Asia.
1:31:59
Signed, Douglas MacArthur. "