Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving the appalling mess of the Korean truce talks and the prisoner-of-war issue behind him, Matthew Bunker Ridgway headed for his new job: Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe. When his Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's National Airport one evening last week, Matt Ridgway, a four-star general in midpassage, had a chance to talk to his bosses about the gloomy past and the hopeful, dangerous future...
...walked briskly down the gangway with pretty Mary Ridgway and three-year-old Matthew Jr. Then the general was whisked off behind sirens to touch all the main bases in Washington...
Sight & Sound. First there was a private talk with Commander in Chief Harry Truman at the White House, then a nostalgic trip aboard the President's private train to West Point's 150th anniversary ceremony (where Ridgway got his second oak leaf cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal). At midweek he disappeared behind the closed doors of the Senate Armed Services Committee, later went on to Fort McNair for a special military review and reception. Next day, trim in his suntans, he addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Twenty-four hours later he spoke...
...public appearances, his audiences were impressed by his pleasant voice, his modesty and his alert, military bearing. But after he had talked, they could remember very little of what he had said. Generally, Ridgway left the impression that the Administration's decisions on Korea had been just about flawless, that the MacArthur policies (although he never mentioned the name) would have been a mistake, and that...
Unchanging Objective. But in private, Ridgway was somewhat franker. At week's end the Senate Armed Services Committee released a censored account of its interview with Ridgway. Items...