Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee formed a special five-member subcommittee, headed by Maine's able Margaret Chase Smith, to spotlight "the officials and conditions responsible for the shortages." At the subcommittee's first hearing last week, Van Fleet told the Senators that in June' 1951 he "recommended to General Ridgway, who was then the Far East commander, that we follow [our May counteroffensive] with an amphibious landing on the east coast, and had such an operation well prepared for execution. And that operation was stopped...
...Fleet: As far as I know, General Ridgway...
...because "the Chinese cannot maintain an offensive for more than a few weeks. They do not know how." Van Fleet got strong supporting fire from the subcommittee's only other witness of the week: Lieut. General Edward M. Almond (ret.), commander of the X Corps under MacArthur, then Ridgway, then Van Fleet. Almond called the testimony of his ex-boss "sound and complete," said that delays caused by ammunition shortages had "interfered with aggressive operations calculated to defeat the enemy...
...Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, NATO Commander General Matthew Ridgway is doing a splendid job, and has firmest Administration support...
...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...