Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Question. Criticism stemming from this state of mind landed on MacArthur as soon as he began pursuing the shattered North Korean army above the 38th parallel. When the Chinese Communists attacked, they threw MacArthur back; he, and later Ridgway, stabilized the front, and the U.N. forces were advancing again when the Reds set up the peace talks. The siege mentality in the U.N. nations revived, as the Communists doubtless thought it would...
...Paris, General Matthew B. Ridgway announced that Air Force Brigadier General William Preston Nuckols, 47, briefing officer in Korea for a year of the Panmunjom truce talks, would be the new NATO Public Information Officer...
...years of Anglo-American friction over command of NATO forces in the vital Mediterranean area. The solution was a kind of two-in-one oil: Britain and the U.S. will share joint command in the area, subject to the higher authority of NATO's Supreme Commander Matthew B. Ridgway...
Holding up Britain's end will be able, handsome Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Carney will be of equal standing under Ridgway, and in time of war will "coordinate." What did the word mean? reporters asked. "Coordinate," explained NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain, "is fixing it with the other chap...
...reported to the mayor one day: "Monsieur le Maire, I have the honor to inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...