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Douglas advanced his headquarters forward to Hacienda
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MacArthur was ordered to excerise authority through the Japanese machinery.
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MacArthur's staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and stripped the Emperor of his military authority.
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The constitution—which became effective on 3 May 1947—instituted a Westminster system form of government
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MacArthur was promoted to the new five star General of the army
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which authorized a United Nations (UN) force to assist South Korea
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MacArthur declared:
The Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. -
broached the matter with Eisenhower, then president-elect, in 1952
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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.
