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...though the political opinions of Sun Tzu, Alexander, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Foertsch may be repugnant, their military ideas are valuable. So with Fuller: every reader must be his own censor...
...chief of state could find a man on whose mind was imprinted, as if on animated microfilm, all the books by and about Clausewitz, Napoleon, Lee, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Sun Tzu of China and the rest of the great military theorists and practitioners, then the chief of state would be a fool to buy the books. Joseph Stalin has such a man in Boris Shaposhnikov...
...Admiral is a naval man and so not very literary. But once in a while he reads a book in the evening. His favorite is the military strategy of Sun Tzu, the Chinese Clausewitz. Sun Tzu's first precept is one that Kichisaburo Nomura especially relishes. Ironically, it is also often on the lips of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Also-and this is why Admiral Nomura's hopeful mission seems doomed to failure-it is the unspoken precept of the U.S. State Department. The Admiral's translation...
Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...
...Chiang, who "wears the pants" (see cut, p. 18) in the Chinese Government to a greater extent than any woman since the death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...