The year 1945 was a year of great significance in our Chinese history. During the year, the tireless efforts of our Chinese people, coupled with the two atomic bombs of the United States, brought the second world war to an end. And this year was a happy year for our Chinese, the Japanese invaders unconditionally announced their surrender, and signed the surrender document. And at the time of signing, American Admiral MacArthur, who was sent to represent the United States in the surrender ceremony, made a shocking move, that is, he changed the signature pen several times in a row to sign the surrender instrument.
The surrender ceremony took place on a U.S. warship, and after Japan announced its surrender, before the instrument of surrender was signed, MacArthur was very dissatisfied with the consensus reached by Japan and American politicians behind the scenes. This surrender is not strictly speaking, unconditional surrender, japan has reached an agreement with the United States before the surrender, so that the United States agreed to some of their conditions, including the condition of not killing the Japanese emperor.
At that time, the Japanese emperor was Hirohito, one of the initiators of Japan's war, the SOLDIERs who died on the battlefield of the Us army had nothing to do with this emperor, and the United States at that time wanted to make Japan surrender faster, so that it was convenient for it to occupy Japan before the Soviet Union landed in Japan, and dropped atomic bombs on Japan, but even so, Japan was still unwilling to surrender, seeing that the Soviet Union's war situation was getting better and better, and it was about to hit Japan, and the American politicians agreed to Japan's condition of not killing the Japanese emperor. An emperor who does not kill Japan will also give the United States better control of Japan for the United States.
Although MacArthur was the representative of the United States, in addition to his status as the representative of the United States, he was also a soldier, a soldier who could not not cherish his soldiers, and MacArthur was very uncomfortable to see his soldiers killed by Japan, and the emperor of Japan was not executed. But even so, MacArthur could not do anything but humiliate the Japanese in this way to vent himself.
At the surrender ceremony, the Japanese side sent eleven people to participate, while the United States side sent fifty people from the navy and the army to participate in this ceremony of great significance, and in addition to more people than the Japanese, MacArthur also used a special way to humiliate these Japanese. Surrender was a very disgraceful thing, and it was even more so for Japanese Bushido. The Japanese who attended the surrender ceremony were trying to quickly sign and go home.
But MacArthur, in order to humiliate the Japanese, was very inky when he signed, and before signing, MacArthur was twenty minutes late, but when he came to the ship, he did not rush over immediately, but rested on the ship for a few minutes before coming to the scene. MacArthur invited his deputy, General Joseville of England, to join him in witnessing this historic moment. These two people had been captured by the Japanese in the war and suffered all kinds of humiliations, and at this time they came to witness it in order to humiliate the Japanese.
MacArthur first took a pen, owed a little, then gave it to his deputy, then took out a second pen and signed it a little, and then gave it to Bai Xihua. MacArthur then took out a third pen and wrote his name, which he gave to the National Archives. Finally, he signed his rank with two pens.
Whether or not MacArthur changed his pen at the ceremony, it was a humiliation to Japan, and they would eventually pay a serious price for what they did.