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Decorated for World War II service aboard a destroyer in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Zumwalt also commanded a river gunboat that sailed up the Yangtze River to help disarm Japanese forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works...
...other non-Communist Americans, all captured from planes shot down over Chinese territory (an undetermined number of Americans who worked for the Peking regime but fell into disfavor are also believed to be in Chinese prisons). Civilians John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau were in a plane destroyed over Manchuria during the Korean War, have been in captivity for more than 17 years. Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith was captured while on a reconnaissance mission along the China coast in 1965, and Navy Lieut. Robert J. Flynn was imprisoned after being shot down when his plane strayed across...
...successful?descendant of two other Japanese prototypes. One was the swashbuckling wako, or warrior-trader, who began plundering Asia as early as the 14th century. The second was the soldier-bureaucrat who went to war a generation ago to develop a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," stretching from Manchuria to Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before...
...brought it into conflict with nations around the world. Williams interprets every act of U.S. diplomacy in the light of his neo-Marxist conviction that capitalism must always expand in search of new markets. Thus the U.S., while claiming to be championing Chinese integrity against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, was only interested in China as a source of trade. This economic compulsion eventually led to war with Japan, says Williams...
...Boorman's main arguments is Manchuria proved disastrous against the Maoist, wei-ch'i influenced, strategy...