Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This weekend in Washington several hundred American citizens were beaten, tear-gassed, and incarcerated by officials and soldiers whose salaries they help pay. It was the bloodiest clash in the nation's capital since General MacArthur's troops routed the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats...
General Matt Ridgway, that once familiar figure with the fur cap and the hand grenades dangling from his field jacket, was the man who took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...
...outnumbered army from defeat, and to mount five spring offensives that drove the Chinese back beyond the 38th parallel-where international politics at last fixed a truce line. Retracing what by now must be one of the most overdiscussed personnel changes in modern history, Ridgway comes down hard on MacArthur for his refusal to accept the fact that the Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with...
...handling as Philippine exports began to rise. When World War II came, the Navy commandeered all the company's facilities. After the Japanese conquest of the island nation, all seemed lost for Lusteveco-until it received a handsome postwar windfall. In 1945, with the approval of General Douglas MacArthur, the company was given a treasure in surplus LSTs, cranes and trucks to replace its lost equipment...
Rolling Thunder. One logical decision, long urged by his military advisers, would be a determined thrust by land and sea in and above the so-called Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams. The "Inchon Thing," as Pentagon planners call it-referring to Douglas MacArthur's end run into enemy territory during the Korean War -would carry the ground war to North Vietnamese soil for the first time. The purpose would be to seal off the DMZ as an operational base for North Vietnamese regular forces above the 17th Parallel and to crimp the southward flow of Communist...