Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voicing another such threat -or was it just a bluff? General Van Fleet in Seoul saw no signs-yet-that a Communist offensive is imminent...
...being involved in a Communist plot, seize a twelfth on a murder charge, and arrest eleven citizens on a charge of plotting to assassinate him. The actions brought stern rebukes from a U.N. commission in Korea and the U.S. Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest. The National Assembly voted 96 to 3 to lift martial law. But many Assembly members, afraid to go home, slept...
...truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that they were not. Ridgway-and Washington-backed...
...Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet, on Koje to inspect the new precautions, everything looked fine & dandy, as it has all along to him. "I don't think there will be any more trouble," Soldier Van Fleet announced optimistically. "Bull" Boatner thought otherwise. "We can't get into those compounds," he fretted. "We can't take a roll-call. We don't know what they're plotting." But plotting they were...
...Matt Ridgway, fly happily off to the U.S., leaving Clark with a mess on his hands. Ample portions of blame had already been meted out to the two squirming brigadiers, Dodd and Colson, but some blame would undoubtedly fall on Ridgway and on the Eighth Army's Van Fleet...