Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predictable results of participation in wars is the appearance of "old soldiers." The trouble is that occasionally they become annoying to the Administration. An example is General Matthew B. Ridgway, and no doubt a number of members of the Administration wish the doughty paratrooper would do some fast fading. For behind the petty bickering that reaches the headlines, is the question mark Ridgway has placed next to our present military policy...
Athletic fair play cannot be attributed to this game. All is permitted, and the most brutal "footballer" is considered the most courageous sportsman. The supreme slogan of football is "Brawn over Brain". American generals such as "Pestgeneral Ridgway" and "Korea Interventionist Van Fleet" treasure the "footballer" as the best, most ruthless and compliant soldier. The question never arises for these men as to the tendency or purpose of an order. Its cold-blooded quality alone suffices for them to accomplish what ever is wanted...
Since networks and stations had little detailed program information, TV Guide's Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional...
...Pentagon leaked General Matthew Ridgway's farewell message as Army Chief of Staff, a restatement of his familiar thesis that the U.S. should have more foot soldiers, an Army view that President Eisenhower called "in a sense, parochial." Old Paratrooper Ridgway termed U.S. forces "inadequate in strength and improperly proportioned"; the U.S. had placed too much emphasis upon the atom and the Air Force, and this was insufficient answer to the Communist tactic of nibbling with conventional arms at the free world's boundaries. Said Ridgway: "In view of the free world's appreciable manpower superiority over...
There was no indication, however, that Ridgway's views were going to detcur the present U.S. concentration on air power. The U.S. is developing and diversifying tactical A-bombs to reduce the need for Ridgway's big land armies, and is disengaging U.S. ground troops wherever possible from the Communist frontiers. Last week, at the annual work-and-play conference of 170 military and civilian defense leaders at Quantico, Va., Defense Secretary Charles Wilson characteristically brushed off Ridgway's message as "not very important," and announced that he was planning to pull out one of the three...