General Douglas MacArthur "There is no substitute for victory!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

General Douglas MacArthur warned in his Farewell Address to Congress, April 19. 1951:

"The Communist threat is a global one ...

Under no circumstances must Formosa (Taiwan) fall under Communist control ..."

"... One must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture ...

China, up to 50 years ago ... followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture.

At the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts ... produced the start of a nationalist urge.

... This was further ... developed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek,

but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.

... Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized ...

They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders.

... This has produced a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power ...

Chinese Communists' support of the North Koreans was the dominant one. Their interests are ... parallel with those of the Soviet ..."

MacArthur continued:

"... But I believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in Korea but also in Indo-China and Tibet and pointing potentially toward the South reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time ...

... There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China.

They are blind to history's clear lesson ... that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war ...

... Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative ...

China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit ... Like a cobra ... more likely strike whenever it feels ... (it) is in its favor on a world-wide basis."

Douglas MacArthur was born January 26, 1880.

The lineage of both parents were military and Episcopalian Christian.

Home-schooled as child, he attended high school at the Episcopal West Texas Military Academy, founded in 1893, whose mission statement, “to provide an excellent educational community, with values based on the teachings of Jesus Christ."

The school was similar to D.L. Moody's "Moody Bible Institute" founded seven years earlier.

Every day, MacArthur and his 48 classmates walked several blocks, no matter the weather, to attend morning chapel at St. Paul’s Memorial Church.

“Biblical lessons began to open the spiritual portals of a growing faith.”

He graduated valedictorian of West Texas Military Academy, and in 1898, became a cadet at West Point Military Academy, where he graduated top of his class in 1903.

MacArthur conducted a reconnaissance mission during the 1914 U.S. occupation of Veracruz, for which he was nominated for the Medal of Honor.

In 1930, at age 50, MacArthur became the youngest Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.

"The springs of human conflict cannot be eradicated through institutions, but only through the reform of the individual human being …

We all dream of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) and the Sermon on the Mount."

When Japan invaded the Philippines, President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to withdraw to Australia.

MacArthur left the Philippines, but not before he promising "I shall return."

When General MacArthur heard that 10,000 Filipino and American prisoners died on the Bataan Death March, he stated, April 9, 1942:

"To the weeping mothers of its dead, I can only say that the sacrifice and halo of Jesus of Nazareth has descended upon their sons, and that God will take them unto Himself."

On October 20, 1944, General MacArthur returned with an American army to free the Philippines, stating:

"People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil -- soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.

We have come, dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control ... The hour of your redemption is here ... Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on."

In a radio speech broadcast from the invasion beach on returning to the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur stated, October 20, 1944:

"Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike!

Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!"

General Douglas MacArthur stated:

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Promoted to Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific, he received Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.

“Men since the beginning of time have sought peace … military alliances, balances of powers, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war.

The utter destructiveness of war now blots out this alternative. We have had our last chance.

If we will not devise some greater and equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.

The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence (renewal), an improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”

After the surrender, Japan was under direct control of the U.S. Occupation Army led by Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Pacific (SCAP).

This was different than post-war Europe, in which Germany was divided into four zones controlled the allied powers.

President Truman sent a message to MacArthur, September 6, 1945:

“The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the State is subordinate to you as Supreme Commander for the Allied powers. You will exercise your authority as you deem proper to carry out your mission.”

Japanese investigative journalist Eiichiro Tokumoto wrote in Under the Shadow of the Occupation: The Ashlar and The Cross (1945):

“There was a complete collapse of faith in Japan in 1945 — in our invincible military, in the emperor, in the religion that had become known as ‘state Shinto.'"

Shinto beliefs were taught in the public schools and permeated Japanese society, exciting the militaristic fervor of an ancient samurai warrior code known as Bushido, fighting to the death, similar to Islamic jihad martyrs.

MacArthur warned:

"Japan is a spiritual vacuum ... If you do not fill it with Christianity, it will be filled with communism.”

He pleaded that Youth for Christ and other ministries send 10,000 missionaries to Japan:

“Send missionaries and Bibles.”

While in Tokyo, MacArthur daily read the American Standard Version of the Bible and helped distribute 43 million Bibles, resulting in it becoming a best-seller in Japan.

He served as Honorary Chairman of Japan’s first post-war Christian University, and advocated for the spread of Christianity:

"(In order to) provide the surest foundation for the firm establishment of democracy";

“Democracy and Christianity have much in common, as practice of the former is impossible without giving faithful (service) to the fundamental concepts underlying the latter.”

MacArthur wrote in 1948:

“I am absolutely convinced that true democracy can exist only on a spiritual foundation. It will endure when it rests firmly on the Christian conception of the individual and society.”

These views were also held by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who stated November 1, 1940:

"Those forces hate democracy and Christianity ... They oppose democracy because it is Christian. They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy."

FDR stated at Madison Square Garden, NY, October 28, 1940:

"We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within."

FDR stated in a Labor Day Address, September 1, 1941:

"Preservation of these rights is vitally important ... to the whole future of Christian civilization."

MacArthur's call for missionaries and Bibles was documented in:

Journalist Eiichiro Tokumoto gave the account of a 1946 conversation between MacArthur and two U.S. Catholic Bishops John F. O’Hara and Michael J. Ready:

"General MacArthur asked us to urge the sending of thousands of Catholic missionaries — at once ... that they had a year to help fill the ‘spiritual vacuum’ created by the defeat."

Emperor Hirohito offered to have the government convert all of Japan to Christianity.

Amherst College professor of Japanese history, Ray Moore, recorded the General told evangelist Billy Graham: “the Emperor had offered to make Christianity the official religion of Japan."

MacArthur made the fateful decision to decline the offer, believing that it could potentially create conflict between Protestants and Catholics, and that conversion should be only by a free choice:

“This most sacred of human rights – to worship freely in accordance with individual conscience – is fundamental to all reforms.”

In the article "Bringing the Bible to Japan," MacArthur told U.S. News and World Report, February 4, 1955:

“No phase of the occupation has left me with a greater sense of personal satisfaction than my spiritual stewardship.”

As recorded in Revitalizing a Nation: A Statement of Beliefs, Opinions, and Policies Embodied in the Public Pronouncements of General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur (Chicago: Heritage Foundation, 1952), he explained how his policies in Japan:

“Discarded is the traditional intolerance of human rights, the restrictions upon human liberties, the callousness to human life, and in their place have been accepted and fused into the Japanese heart many of the Christian virtues.”

Among the first Church of Christ missionaries returning to Japan were Emily Cunningham, and Owen and Shirley Still.

Beliefnet.com published:

"Owen Still had been a missionary in pre-war Japan.

He got his family out of Tokyo on one of the last ships before Pearl Harbor, then spent much of World War II in Japanese internment camps in California and Arizona, serving as a volunteer chaplain to Japanese-Americans forced to spend the war behind barbed wire.

After the Japanese surrender, he was one of the first civilians allowed back into Tokyo since he spoke fluent Japanese.

He had trouble even finding the Yotsuya Mission where he had preached for a decade — so complete was the destruction.

In Tokyo, Owen Still was gratified to find that many of the native pastors, including Stephen Ijima, had survived the war — and their congregations were going strong ..."

"MacArthur saw that Rev. Still received a temporary military commission, allowing him to move freely ... He got the mission’s churches and Bible college back up and running — knowing that the permanence of the Gospel in Japan depended on native-born pastors."

Another person who decided to return to Japan as a missionary was Jake DeShazer, which changed the life of a Japanese pilot, Mitsuo Fuchida.

Fuchida wrote in his biography From Pearl Harbor to Calvary (1953):

"With the end of the war, my military career was over, since all Japanese forces were disbanded ... Though I was never accused, Gen. Douglas MacArthur summoned me to testify ...

As I got off the train one day in Tokyo's Shibuya Station, I saw an American distributing literature ... He handed me a pamphlet entitled "I Was a Prisoner of Japan" (published by Bible Literature International) ...

Jake DeShazer ... volunteered for a secret mission with the Jimmy Doolittle Squadron - a surprise raid on Tokyo from the carrier Hornet ... After the bombing raid ... DeShazer found himself a prisoner of Japan ..."

Mitsuo Fuchida explained that after the war:

"DeShazer ... returned to Japan as a missionary. And his story, printed in pamphlet form, was something I could not explain ...

I decided to purchase (a Bible) myself, despite my traditionally Buddhist heritage ... In the ensuing weeks, I read this book eagerly.

Right at that moment, I seemed to meet Jesus for the first time. I understood the meaning of His death as a substitute for my wickedness, and so in prayer, I requested Him to forgive my sins and change me from a bitter, disillusioned ex-pilot into a well-balanced Christian with purpose in living ..."

Fuchida added:

"I became a new person. My complete view on life was changed by the intervention of the Christ I had always hated and ignored before .I have traveled across Japan and the Orient introducing others to the One Who changed my life.

I believe with all my heart that those who will direct Japan - and all other nations - in the decades to come must not ignore the message of Jesus Christ."

Kiyoko Takeda Cho, a prominent intellectual in Tokyo described the missionaries:

“They were young and idealistic, and identified with Japan ... They represented not the ruling country, but came for reconciliation. That attitude was very much appreciated, not only by Christians but also non-Christians.”

To MacArthur's credit, no other military occupation in history matched the peace and reconciliation he achieved in the aftermath of WWII.

As recorded in "The Faith of MacArthur: Binding Up the Wounds of a Broken Nation," by Joseff J. B. Smith, (College at Brockport, SUNY, 05/10/2013), MacArthur stated:

but rather as that one whose sacred duty it became, once the guns were silenced, to carry to the land of our vanquished foe the solace and hope and faith of Christian morals …

An occupation not conceived in a spirit of vengeance or mastery of victor over vanquished, but committed to the Christian purpose of helping a defeated, bewildered and despairing people."

When U.S. occupation of Japan ended in 1952, it was apparent that relatively few Christian missionaries responded to MacArthur's call to come to Japan, and an enormous opportunity was missed.

This is significantly different to the outcome after the Korean War, with the vibrant growth of Christianity in South Korea, which is now sending missionaries throughout the world.

Douglas MacArthur received the Medal of Honor, as did his father, Arthur MacArthur, who served during the Civil War.

The only other father and son to receive the Medal of Honor were Theodore Roosevelt, for leading the charge up Cuba's San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, and his son, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., for leading the first wave of troops ashore at Normandy during World War II.

Promoted to five-star general, MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander during the beginning of the Korean War, making a daring landing of troops deep behind enemy lines at Inchon and recapturing Seoul.

MacArthur became at odds with President Truman who was afraid to confront Communist China.

Truman instead introduced the "containment" strategy which sentenced millions to live under communist totalitarianism.

MacArthur disagreed, stating:

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

Truman made the stunningly unpopular decision to remove MacArthur.

General Douglas MacArthur addressed Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, on July 25, 1951:

"I find in existence a new and heretofore unknown and dangerous concept that the members of our Armed Forces owe primary allegiance ... to those who temporarily exercise the authority ... rather than to the ... Constitution which they are sworn to defend.

For its application would at once convert them from their traditional and constitutional role as the instrument for the defense of the Republic into something partaking of the nature of a praetorian guard, owing its allegiance to the political master of the hour ...

Members of the armed services have been subjected to the most arbitrary and ruthless treatment for daring to speak the truth in accordance with conviction and conscience."

On April 19, 1951, following his tour of Korea, General Douglas MacArthur spoke to a Joint Session of Congress to announce his retirement:

"I am closing my fifty-two years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.

... The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the Plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have all since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

And, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who has tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-by."

MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962:

"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training -- sacrifice.

In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ...

No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind."

On January 18, 1955, a monument was dedicated to General Douglas MacArthur at the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, which had inscribed his statement:

"Battles are not won by arms alone. There must exist above all else a spiritual impulse -- a will to victory. In war there can be no substitute for victory."

In 1977, Gregory Peck starred in Universal Pictures film "MacArthur."

On July 25, 1951, General Douglas MacArthur told the Massachusetts Legislature:

"It was the adventurous spirit of Americans which despite risks and hazards carved a great nation from an almost impenetrable wilderness ...

which built our own almost unbelievable material progress ... which raised the standard of living of the American people beyond that ever before known ...

This adventurous spirit is now threatened as it was in the days of the Boston Tea Party by an unconscionable burden of taxation.

This is sapping the initiative and energies of the people and leaves little incentive for the assumption of those risks which are inherent and unescapable in the forging of progress under the system of free enterprise.

Worst of all, it is throwing its tentacles around the low income bracket sector of our society, from whom is now exacted the major share of the cost of government. This renders its paper income largely illusory ..."

"The so-called forgotten man of the early thirties now is indeed no longer forgotten as the Government levies upon his income as the main remaining source to defray reckless spendthrift policies.

More and more we work not for ourselves but for the State. In time, if permitted to continue, this trend cannot fail to be destructive.

For no nation may survive in freedom once its people become servants of the State, a condition to which we are now pointed with dreadful certainty ..."

MacArthur added:

"Nothing is heard from those in the supreme executive authority concerning the possibility of a reduction or even a limitation upon these mounting costs.

No suggestion deals with the restoration of some semblance of a healthy balance. No plan is advanced for easing the crushing burdens already resting upon the people.

To the contrary, all that we hear are the plans by which such costs progressively may be increased ... for greater call upon the taxable potential as though the resources available were inexhaustable."

In 1942, General MacArthur was named Father of the Year. He stated:

"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father.

A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life.

It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'"

He composed "A Father's Prayer" in the early days of World War II while in the Pacific:

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee -- and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.

Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail ..."

MacArthur continued:

"Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.

Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.

Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, 'I have not lived in vain.'"

"I have seen since my return to my native land after an absence of many years ... our material progress has been little short of phenomenal.

It has established an eminence in material strength so far in advance of any other nation ... that talk of an imminent threat to our national security through ... external force is pure nonsense.

It is not of any external threat that I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions -- these institutions which formerly we hailed as something beyond question of challenge -- those institutions we proudly called the American way of life ..."

General MacArthur continued:

"Foremost of these forces is that directly, or even more frequently indirectly, allied with the scourge of imperialistic Communism ...

... It has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility -- into journalism, the press, the radio and the school.

It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings ..."

"... This evil force, with neither spiritual base nor moral standard, rallies the abnormal and subnormal elements among our citizenry

and applies internal pressure against all things we hold descent and all things that we hold right -- the type of pressure which has caused many Christian nations abroad to fall and their own cherished freedoms to languish in the shackles of complete suppression.

As it has happened there it can happen here. Our need for patriotic fervor and religious devotion was never more impelling.

There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism, no half way in the preservation of freedom and religion. It must be all or nothing."

Warning again of the deep-state, he addressed the Michigan legislature in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952, (Edward T. Imparato, General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964, published in 2000, p. 206):

"Talk of imminent threat to our national security through ... external force is pure nonsense.

Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions -- those institutions we proudly called the American way of life."

MacArthur warnings seem eerily prophetic.

On June 14, 2022, LifeSiteNews.com published the notice "Virtual press conference ft. retired generals will expose President's 'deliberate' destruction of US military":

"TUCSON, Arizona (TruthforHealth.org) – President Joe Biden is using COVID to engineer a systematic destruction of America’s military and national security through a purging of the most experienced and well-trained personnel and replacing them with “woke” indoctrinated extreme leftists who place ideology before God, Corps, Duty, Honor, and Country, according to former generals, high ranking officers, military rights attorneys, military and civilian physicians, and America’s leading health watchdog, Truth for Health Foundation."

TheGatewayPundit.com reported May 31, 2022: "Fighter Pilot Speaks Out on Discrimination Against Unvaccinated in US Military – Pilots Forced to Perform Janitorial Work."

"An astonishing new video interview of a U.S. Marine pilot, Captain Tom Stewart, discusses religious discrimination and how the DOD is violating their own exemption process.

This decorated combat pilot started terminal leave Friday and is officially out on July 1, 2022, ending his 13.5 year career without a pension, denied religious exemptions to Biden's mandates.

Stewart confirmed from personal knowledge, two Navy TOP GUN F-18 pilots in his former unit, and the first female USAF F-35 pilot are also getting the boot (out of 357 pilots and 32 fighters we list below.)

Captain Stewart described his personal story of challenging the US Military vaccine mandates. This included the unlawful [religious purge] they used to ground US pilots back in September wasting nine months of manpower and resources (including $7.8 billion training cost, lost.)

The shocking numbers of Biden's religious purge:

MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, stating:

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.

There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."

MacArthur, who considered himself “a soldier of God as well as of the republic,” concluded his address to the Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951:

"We must unite in the high purpose that the liberties etched upon the design of our life by our forefathers be unimpaired and that we maintain the moral courage and spiritual leadership to preserve inviolate that mighty bulwark of all freedom, our Christian faith."

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Image Credits: Public Domain; Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands, October 20, 1944; Author: U.S. Army Signal Corps officer Gaetano Faillace; National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531424; This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg