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Douglas MacArthur

  • advanced headquarters

    advanced headquarters
    Douglas advanced his headquarters forward to Hacienda
  • MacArthur was ordered to excerise authority

    MacArthur was ordered to excerise authority
    MacArthur was ordered to excerise authority through the Japanese machinery.
  • The new constitution

    The new constitution
    MacArthur's staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and stripped the Emperor of his military authority.
  • The constitution

    The constitution
    The constitution—which became effective on 3 May 1947—instituted a Westminster system form of government
  • Promotion

    Promotion
    MacArthur was promoted to the new five star General of the army
  • war

    war
    which authorized a United Nations (UN) force to assist South Korea
  • Congress

    Congress
    MacArthur declared:
    The Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history.
  • President-elect

    President-elect
    broached the matter with Eisenhower, then president-elect, in 1952
  • Statue

    Statue
    In 1962, West Point honored the increasingly frail MacArthur with the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to the nation, which had gone to Eisenhower the year before.