Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State of Mind Warned General Ridgway: "There is a truckload of minutiae still to be discussed." Communist truce mechanics, equipped with monkey wrenches, seemed determined to keep the truck stalled. Last week they: 1) threatened to make a truce issue of Peking's charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted...
...nation was startled and confused when Colonel James Hanley and General Matthew Ridgway released some widely differing...
Pollock started his collection with the first issue of 1951, was able to get 39 autographs out of the year's 48 cover personalities. Those of which he is proudest are India's Nehru, Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Ridgway, Man of the Year Mossadegh, France's late General de Lattre and Warren Austin. Among those who turned him down were Churchill, Truman, Egypt's King Farouk, Argentina's Peróns and Vasily Stalin...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...
Toasting with Lead. Last week Reuters, the British news agency, decided it was time to stop playing footie with the Reds. When the Communists offered pictures of Commonwealth prisoners, Reuters promptly returned them unused. Then the Army stepped in with a warning from Colonel George Patrick Welch, General Ridgway's information officer. Some correspondents, said Welch in Tokyo, had been abusing their rights at Panmunjom by "fraternization and trafficking with the enemy." He said they were guilty of "excessive social consorting, including drinking of alcoholic beverages, with Communist 'journalists.' " The Army's Stars & Stripes, which itself...