Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitched to carry beyond Panmunjom to Peking, and beyond Peking to Moscow. Their message: the U.S. has come to the end of its patience in the ten-month effort to achieve an armistice in Korea, and will fall back no further. Said the departing U.N. commander, General Matthew Ridgway: "The issues are clear, the stakes are manifest. Our position is one from which we cannot and shall not retreat...
...Moscow trade conference, journeyed on to Peking. There they studied a bacteriological warfare exhibit which was supposed to show germ-carrying U.S. bombs. Exclaimed one Briton: "Inconceivable that the evidence shown us was forged." Communist organs in France are whipping up a demonstration against the new NATO Commander Matthew Ridgway, who is being denounced as the "microbe killer." Capping it all, the Pyongyang radio has been broadcasting the "confessions" of two captured...
...coming the same week that Juin assumed command of NATO's European land forces, set SHAPE'S protocol officers to biting their nails. With his marshal's baton and seven-starred, oak-and laurel-leaf-encrusted kept Juin will outrank his new boss, four-star General Ridgway (who is also outranked by another subordinate, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery). Probable solution: a fifth star for Ridgway...
...dark grey 1951 Cadillac with the 16-petal imperial chrysanthemum crest upon it, Emperor Hirohito made an official call on Supreme Allied Commander Matthew B. Ridgway. It was the 14th courtesy call of the conquered on the conqueror, and the last. Soon after, Ridgway returned the visit, then went home to prepare for his new assignment in Europe...
...Tokyo, the horsy set dressed up and headed for the royal paddocks on the Imperial Palace grounds to compare social notes and the finer points of riding at the annual exhibition. Among those present: Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, trim and tailored (and soon to be notified of a change of residence-see INTERNATIONAL), who shared a front-row view with Jockey-for-the-Day Crown Prince Akihito...