Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists, and a distressing though brief mutiny among Belgian conscripts. Prime Minister Jean van Houtte, anxious to convince Belgian voters that they were not being asked to do more than anyone else, begged his allies to raise their draft periods to Belgium's. The answer that he and Matt Ridgway got was a disheartening...
Economic pinch was the explanation given; yet complacency too was behind the slowdowns. Matt Ridgway tried last week to counter this feeling with a soldier's assessment: "There is no reliable evidence known to me . . . [that] the potential threat of armed aggression . . . has in any way abated." Warned the London Observer: "Everybody is now smugly persuading himself that the danger of war has receded and that it is therefore possible to go to sleep again. There will be a harsh awakening...
...major headache in organizing the defense of Europe is the sticky problem of who is to boss whom. When Matt Ridgway took over as NATO's supreme commander last spring, all allied fighting forces in southern Europe were under the nominal command of his subordinate, U.S. Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney. Since Carney's land forces were all Italian, an Italian general, Maurizio de Castiglione, who fought under Rommel in North Africa, was appointed to head them. But the fighting men of Turkey and Greece, newly admitted last February to NATO's forces, refused point-blank...
SHAPE'S rank-happy kids had hoped for Supreme Commander Matt Ridgway at their end-of-the-term prize-giving. At the last minute, important NATO business kept him away. Four-star General Gruenther couldn't make it either. But Mrs. Gruenther came, and SHAPE'S U.S. liaison officer, bemedaled Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., a brigadier general, made the awards...
When the awards were handed out, the loudest applause was earned by the winner of Matt Ridgway's special prize (an atlas, a book about Paris and a book about trains) for the student who distinguished himself for the "best international spirit in his relationship with his comrades." The winner: twelve-year-old Michael MacKinnon, son of a wing commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force...