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...campaign in the Korean peninsula bore striking resemblance to the Duke of Wellington's "Peninsular Campaign" against Napoleon's armies in Spain. The Iron Duke, like Matthew Ridgway, was pitted against enemy armies of overwhelming numerical superiority, capable of getting steady overland reinforcements. Wellington's troops, like the Eighth Army, were supplied by overwhelming seapower. Wrote Wellington, describing his "war of maneuver": "If they advance against me, I shall retire before them, accepting battle if they give me a favorable opportunity, for the missile action of my lines is superior to the shock action of their columns...
...Third Field Army (about 620,000) now seems mostly stationed in North China, and especially on the strategic Shantung Peninsula. Its commander is the redoubtable Chen Yi, conqueror of Nanking and Shanghai, a warrior-poet who is now mayor of Shanghai. After V-J day, from his lair in Shantung, he kept the Nanking government cut off from its great northern cities. Rumors have reached the U.S. that Chen Yi would like to sell...
Visitors to Hong Kong, expecting the tension of a beleaguered city, were surprised at how relaxed it was. Over tea in the dustily ornate Peninsula Hotel, a vacationing U.S. physician from Tokyo marveled: "I never saw a patient quite so cheerfully resigned to dying...
Radioactive dating, done in the U.S., proved that "No. 49" (his mummy was the 49th which the Peruvians unwrapped) died about 600 B.C., when Rome was younger than Cincinnati is now. He was buried with other leaders of his people on the desert Paracas peninsula on Peru's southern coast. For perhaps 1,000 years his descendants lived near by, spinning their delicate, brilliant textiles, making beautiful pottery and ornaments of gold...
...pragmatic level, the United states should not be irrevocably committed to war against a huge nation like China, a war fought in an out-of-the-way peninsula, with allies who are unenthusiastic about the whole business. The advantage of enabling U.N. troops to carry their fight to the Chinese mainland would be outweighed by our inability to open negotiations for a Far Eastern settlement. At best, we could obtain an armed peace with a large American army required to keep the Chinese on the other side of the Yalu River; at worst, a U.N. evacuation of Korea...