HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Published: - Clarence Adams of Memphis, Tenn., who was black, said he chose China because he was fed up with discrimination in the United States. He studied at Wuhan University in China, where he met his wife, Lin, a Russian language instructor. The couple returned quietly to the United States in 1966 and opened a chop suey house in 1970. Adams died in 1999. - Howard Gayle Adams, originally of Corsicana, Texas, worked in a factory in China. According to fellow defector Morris Wills, he was jailed for a time early on for trying to leave. Adams was a decorated World War II veteran working his way through college at the University of Houston in 1950 when he re-enlisted. He has repeatedly refused interview requests. - Claude Batchelor was court-martialed by the U.S. Army even though he changed his mind about defecting and never went to China. He served 3 1/2 years in prison. After an AP reporter left messages for him on an answering machine, the telephone number thought to be his was disconnected. - Albert Belhomme was Belgian and immigrated to the United States as a teen-ager when his mother married an American soldier. Historian Adam Zweiback reported that Belhomme returned to Belgium after leaving China. The Associated Press was unable to locate him. - Otho Bell worked on a collective farm in China and returned to the United States in 1955. He was jailed for three months until a judge ruled that the Army could not court-martial him because he had been dishonorably discharged. He reportedly suffered from a drinking problem after returning home and had several brushes with the law. He died last July. - Richard Corden returned to the United States in 1958, proclaiming he still favored communism and expected it would eventually overtake the United States. He stayed for a time in California, then made his way back across the country toward his home state of Rhode Island. He relied partly on handouts from friends to pay his way. He died in 1988. - William Cowart was sent to work with Bell and Lewis Griggs on a collective farm in China. The three were the first to return to the United States in 1955. They were jailed for three months until a judge ruled the Army could not court-martial them because the military had already given them dishonorable discharges. AP could not locate him. - Edward Dickenson, like Batchelor, was court-martialed by the U.S. Army despite changing his mind about defecting and returning to the United States before ever reaching China. He served 3 1/2 years in prison for communicating with the enemy without proper authority and misconduct as a prisoner of war. Eventually he returned home and married. Speaking through his wife, he declined to be interviewed. - Rufus Elbert Douglas, originally of Texon, Texas, died a few months after entering China. Reports about the cause of death varied, but all pointed to illness. - John Roedel Dunn was from Baltimore and attended college there. While living in China, he married a Czechoslovakian woman and they later moved to that communist country. AP could not locate him. - Andrew Fortuna quit school after the eighth grade. He was a World War II veteran and married to a Japanese woman. He earned two Bronze stars in Korea before being captured in 1950. He returned from China in 1957. His last known residence was in Inkster, Mich. He died in 1984. - Lewis Griggs was sent to work on a collective farm in China and returned to the United States in 1955 with Bell and Cowart. The three were jailed for three months until a judge ruled that the Army could not court-martial them because they had already been dishonorably discharged. In 1959, he was a senior at Stephen Austin College, majoring in sociology. He died in 1984. - Samuel Hawkins returned to the United States and studied to become a physician's assistant. Originally from Oklahoma, he married and had children. He spoke to AP on the condition that his location not be disclosed. - Arlie Pate was the second of nine children and was inspired to enlist by a family member's military service. He worked in a paper factory in China and returned to the States in 1956 with fellow defector Aaron Wilson. He died in 1999. - Scott Rush returned to the United States with his Chinese wife and young child. He is now retired in the Midwest. Rush said he is doing well, but declined to be interviewed at length because of concern about his friends and neighbors learning of his past. He said he didn't want to be called a traitor again. - Lowell Skinner was from Akron, Ohio, and helped raise his five siblings. He left China in the 1960s and eventually lived in San Bernardino, Calif. He died in 1995. - Larance Sullivan grew up in Nebraska. Though he was black, his family reported that he had never experienced the kind of discrimination that Clarence Adams said drove him to seek equality in China. Sullivan left China in 1958 and was hospitalized several times after returning to the United States. He died in last November. - Richard Tenneson left China in December of 1955 and later traveled to Louisiana to welcome fellow defector Aaron Wilson home. He settled for a time in Minneapolis, where he volunteered with the junior Chamber of Commerce. His last residence was in Utah. He died last August. - James Veneris still lives in China and travels abroad. Known by the Chinese name Lao Wen, he was accused by Red Guards of counterrevolution in the 1960s and for a time he was forced into hard labor. He has said life improved after President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972. He has spent time in the United States, but finds himself something of a misfit here. - Harold Webb married a Polish woman while in China and they moved to Poland in 1960. He returned to the United States on a temporary visa in the 1980s and petitioned the State Department to stay. Initially, federal authorities declined his request but reversed the decision in 1988. Webb is believed to be living in the southern United States, where he has an unlisted telephone number. A letter sent to his address went unanswered. - William White studied Chinese and earned a bachelor's degree in international law from a university in Beijing. He returned to the United States in 1965 with his Chinese wife and two children. He later worked at a farm in upstate New York. The AP could not locate him. - Morris Wills studied Chinese and worked as a translator in Beijing, where he met and married a Chinese woman. The two returned to the United States in 1965 with their young daughter. Wills wrote an autobiography titled "Turncoat: An American's 12 Years in Communist China." He died in 1999. - Aaron Wilson returned home in 1956. His family welcomed him home to Urania, La. He is retired from work as a heavy equipment operator at a shipyard in the South, where he lives with his second wife. He spoke to AP on the condition that his location not be disclosed. --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================ |
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