Thanks for the informative posts. I'll go looking for that book by Lord Russell, Pete M. If it's anything like the rest of his stuff - eg Scourge of the Swastika; and Deadman's Hill (about the A6/Hanratty murder case in Britain) - it will be well worth reading.

Don't know much about how McArthur acquitted himself - except that I believe he took a fairly constructive/conciliatory line towards the Japanese once they had surrendered?