Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Matthew Ridgway, in a farewell chat with correspondents at Roquencourt near Paris before turning over his SHAPE command to General Alfred Gruenther, aired some philosophical thoughts. Driving to headquarters that morning, he had found the highway crammed with vacation-bound motorists bearing camp chairs and tennis rackets, and "it just sort of puts things in a little better perspective. This turnover of command this morning, which has a rather important place in my thinking and in General Gruenther's . . . really doesn't make much difference to the rest of the world-they're bound...
Packing his bags in Paris last week, outgoing Supreme Allied Commander Matthew Ridgway, off to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, presented his successor, General Alfred M. Gruenther, with a new command setup and a few new commanders...
...General Matthew Ridgway...
Reported General Matthew B. Ridgway, retiring Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, last week to the NATO Standing Group in Washington: "I find the disparity between our available forces and those which the Soviet rulers could bring against us so great . . . that a full-scale soviet attack within the near future would find Allied Command . . . critically weak . . . Our progress is insufficient ... to give us acceptable prospect of success if attacked...
...table, nervously awaiting their ordeal by interrogation, sat the four beribboned nominees (see cut)-prospective Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur Radford, the Navy's schoolmasterish-looking Admiral Robert Carney, the Air Force's handsome, white-maned General Nathan Twining and the Army's General Matthew Ridgway, stiffly erect in paratroop boots...