Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major headache in organizing the defense of Europe is the sticky problem of who is to boss whom. When Matt Ridgway took over as NATO's supreme commander last spring, all allied fighting forces in southern Europe were under the nominal command of his subordinate, U.S. Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney. Since Carney's land forces were all Italian, an Italian general, Maurizio de Castiglione, who fought under Rommel in North Africa, was appointed to head them. But the fighting men of Turkey and Greece, newly admitted last February to NATO's forces, refused point-blank...
Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
SHAPE'S rank-happy kids had hoped for Supreme Commander Matt Ridgway at their end-of-the-term prize-giving. At the last minute, important NATO business kept him away. Four-star General Gruenther couldn't make it either. But Mrs. Gruenther came, and SHAPE'S U.S. liaison officer, bemedaled Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., a brigadier general, made the awards...
When the awards were handed out, the loudest applause was earned by the winner of Matt Ridgway's special prize (an atlas, a book about Paris and a book about trains) for the student who distinguished himself for the "best international spirit in his relationship with his comrades." The winner: twelve-year-old Michael MacKinnon, son of a wing commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...