“Is there any danger of Chinese interference?” MacArthur brushed away Truman’s question just as he had in private. “We are no longer fearful of their intervention,” he replied. “The Chinese have 300,000 men in Manchuria. Only fifty to sixty thousand could be gotten across the Yalu River. China has no air umbrella. There would be the greatest slaughter.” The Yalu, he suggested, would run red with Chinese blood.
