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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the uproar over Colonel James Hartley's atrocity figures, General Matt Ridgway has maintained the superior air of a commander who deplores but understands a subordinate's little errors of judgment. He made it clear that he disapproved Hanley's rushing into print before "accumulated evidence warranted," and he deprecated Hanley's tendency to exaggerate. The U.N. command, said Ridgway last week, with the air of a responsible man speaking responsibly, has positive proof of only 365 atrocity killings of captured U.S. fighting men-not 5,500 to 6,000, as listed by Hanley...
Some Were Hearsay. The fact was that the Hanley report was neither the carefully documented truth nor a deliberate propaganda maneuver. It was an Army blunder of appalling proportions. Under urgent prodding from Washington, Far Eastern Commander Matt Ridgway hastily dispatched two officers to Pusan to check Hanley's facts. The officers found that Hanley had thrown together reports from Korean refugees, captured enemy soldiers and hearsay to get his totals. He had only a handful of documented cases (the Pentagon, which eventually gets all such atrocity reports, had been able to establish only about...
...more than four months of U.N.-Communist truce parleys in Korea, the Pentagon and the State Department looked avidly over Matt Ridgway's shoulder, but allowed the Supreme Commander free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway...
...seemed a U.N. triumph, and a hastening of peace, when the Reds gave up their insistence on the 38th parallel line, and accepted instead the present battle line. Some military bigwigs talked as if peace was just around the corner. But last week the Reds' seeming compliance with Matt Ridgway's demands was spotted as a trap which would bottle up U.N. military strength behind a fixed demarcation line, while the other agenda items were wrangled over endlessly...
Paul Garrig (H) beat Jack Snell (MIT), 15-9, 16-13, 15-9, and Matt Reynolds (H) won over Ron Gibson (MIT), 15-11, 15-7, 15-10. Fifth man Hank Swigert (H), who is the only junior on the team, beat Joe Melavas...