Thank you, snowsislander, for the links. It is very interesting!
You are most welcome.
As I said in posting #65, I would take the third link, MacArthur aide: U.S. must learn from errors, with a big grain of salt. I don't know of any standard work on the aftermath of the Pacific War that substantiates that story. The events sound at least plausible, but the lack of other corroborating sources makes it at best dubious in my opinion.