Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift with the battlefront and be adjusted as the last piece of business before signing the armistice. "Unfair," the Reds cried. A few days earlier, Matt Ridgway had told visiting diplomats that he was "never more confident of an early settlement...
Into this situation, Matt Ridgway tossed a potent psychological bombshell. He warned the Reds that, if a cease-fire agreement was eventually reached, it would have to be based on the "reality of opposing military positions at the time"-in other words, that the present Eighth Army offensive is steadily carrying the cease-fire line farther into North Korea. Whether this alone changed the Communists' minds, or whether they merely responded to internal pressures of their own, the Red liaison officers at Panmunjom suddenly became conciliatory...
...over peace, but over how wide the neutral zone must be in which to discuss the peace. At this point, two U.N. planes, strafing the Kaesong neutral area by mistake, killed a twelve-year-old Korean boy and wounded his two-year-old brother. After an investigation, General Matt Ridgway accepted responsibility for the occurrence, expressed his "heartfelt grief" and promised "prompt and appropriate disciplinary action...
...months ago, the Senator heard from Mrs. Fischer again. Nothing vital, apparently, had gone out of her marriage. She was pregnant for the fifth time. This time she was in Junction City, Kans. and Matt was at Wyton Air Base, 60 miles from London. Her baby was due in December, and she didn't think the Army was going to get her to England while she was still able to travel. She hoped that the Senator remembered her and that he could do something to make it "possible ... to catch a ride on a plane going directly to Wyton...
...days, the Kaesong cease-fire talks had been stalled. Matt Ridgway was fed up. Over the radio "Voice of the U.N. Command," which he uses when he doesn't want to put something in writing, his headquarters warned: "The time is fast approaching when resumption or conclusion of the [truce] talks may well turn on one reply." In other words, put up or fight. With that, U.N. forces launched an offensive...