Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fussy Rigmarole. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the chief U.N. delegate, flew to Tokyo last week, conferred lengthily with Matt Ridgway and returned to Munsan with what correspondents believed to be the latest Washington compromise proposal in his briefcase. The newsmen thought that the U.N. would ask the Communists for a general pledge not to build up their "military capability" during an armistice. If the enemy broke the pledge and then breached the peace as well, the U.N. would have what the Pentagon re gards as moral justification for punitive action against Red China itself (TIME...
Next morning, when Ridgway's military secretary Chief Warrant Officer William McCleary arrived and saw the pilfered box, he was speechless for 30 seconds. Then Mr. McCleary reported to Matt Ridgway, and the sparks began to fly. Ridgway called the Honor Guard's captain on the carpet, ordered him to 1) search out the culprits, 2) get rid of them. Faced with the prospect of discipline for the whole company unless they confessed, Smith, King and Branch confessed...
...Communists rejected the U.N. appeal for the immediate exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. They also refused Matt Ridgway's request for Red Cross inspection of their prison camps. Such scrutiny, the Reds said loftily, was unnecessary. The men were well fed, clothed and sheltered, they said, "in complete accordance with humanitarianism...
...commanders were also worried by the condition of the more than 3,000 U.S. prisoners in Red stockades scattered from Pyongyang to the Yalu. By radio, Matt Ridgway dispatched a personal appeal to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai that they start permitting Red Cross inspection at once, as the U.N. has been doing all along. The U.N. subcommittee men at Panmunjom asked that sick and wounded prisoners be exchanged at once...
Predictions of an early peace flew thick & fast last week. They seemed to be based, not on a change of attitude by the Communists, but on a change of course by the U.N. In retrospect, Matt Ridgway's generals and admirals seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that only "inexorable military pressure" would drive the Reds to make peace. They had tied themselves in knots trying to avoid giving the enemy what they scathingly called a "de facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire...