Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army now fighting in Korea is "the best U. S. army I've ever seen" Martin reports. A lot of their present skill he attribute to General Ridgway's "tremendous faculty for inspiring teamwork...
...days, the Kaesong cease-fire talks had been stalled. Matt Ridgway was fed up. Over the radio "Voice of the U.N. Command," which he uses when he doesn't want to put something in writing, his headquarters warned: "The time is fast approaching when resumption or conclusion of the [truce] talks may well turn on one reply." In other words, put up or fight. With that, U.N. forces launched an offensive...
...days later, the Reds rejected Ridgway's request that talks be moved from Kaesong to Songhyon, eight miles closer to U.N. lines. Then they made a counterproposal: Why not meet in Panmunjom, a village just a mile away from Songhyon? Ridgway promptly agreed that Panmunjom met "the fundamental condition of equality of movement and control." Once again it was left to juniors to work out the details. But in Seoul and Tokyo, U.N. commanders continued in their optimistic belief that the Reds genuinely want a ceasefire...
General of the Army Omar Bradley, on his first visit to the Far East since the Korean war began, flew to Tokyo last week to talk-in closest secrecy-with General Ridgway. He was accompanied by the State Department's handsome Russian-speaking expert on the Communist mind, Counselor Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen. In effect, the move put the Pentagon and the State Department in Tokyo, by proxy, for a quick decision if one should prove necessary...
...General Ridgway, over the juniors' heads, appealed directly to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai for a change of site to Songhyon, a mud-hut village eight miles southeast of Kaesong. Songhyon, said Ridgway, would have the advantage of being "approximately midway between the battle lines" and "it would, of course, be agreed by both sides that this meeting place would be kept free of armed troops and that both sides would abstain from any hostile acts...