Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flagrante Delicto. These were only warmups for the arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
...answer to a question about Communist diversionary tactics, General Ridgway replied with one of the basic truths of his time: "Everything these people do all ties into one over-all plan . . ." If the general from Tokyo would remember that simple fact when he took over his new job in Paris, his European mission might work out better than his last assignment...
...north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that they were not. Ridgway-and Washington-backed...
...Nose-Counting. So the screening orders went out, and General Ridgway passed them on to the Eighth Army, which passed them on to the Second Logistical Command at Pusan, and so on down. The screeners did their best, but their best was poor. Some compounds successfully resisted all screening. Undoubtedly, there were many men who hungered for freedom, but had no way of making their wishes known. In one compound where anti-Communists had got the upper hand, the leaders announced they would hold a preliminary screening of their own. They called for repatriation volunteers; when two loyal Communists stepped...
...Along with Generals Ridgway, Clark and Collins...