Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matt Ridgway saw his opening and moved decisively. Over General Nam Il's head, he sent a crisp, soldierly message...
...Reds, now rocked by General Ridgway's decisive reversal of the course of the truce conference, are not trying the full-blast victory theme in Europe - be cause they know that they cannot get away with it, and knew it even before Ridgway struck the issue. Instead, they are plugging the peace theme. Communist papers complain of Ridgway's truculence in breaking off the talks, represent the Communists as "patient," the U.S. as "power mad." The London Daily Worker printed a photomontage showing five smiling world leaders sitting around a conference table: Truman, Stalin, France's Schuman...
...briefing session that night, an officer on Ridgway's information staff conceded that "conditions are not satisfactory to the press corps . . . But the press was not [at Kaesong] because my orders were that they shouldn't be." The admission threw the press into an angry uproar. New York Times Correspondent George Barrett bellowed: "Who is responsible for this foul-up?" Then as Chief U.N. Representative Colonel Andrew J. Kinney confirmed that the Communist press was represented at Kaesong, the session broke into a tumult of charge and countercharge. Why couldn't U.N. reporters go? When Kinney admitted...
...newsmen covering the Korean war landed noisily on the front pages themselves last week, found it an uncomfortable feeling to be principals in the news, as well as its reporters. But their strange role brought a quick reward: General Ridgway skillfully used the issue they had raised to the full advantage of the western world (see WAR IN ASIA...
Into the free-for-all jumped Ridgway's new top information officer, Brigadier General Frank A. Allen. Though a good combat officer, Allen's record as a P.R.O. does not inspire confidence in war correspondents. As press chief for General Eisenhower during World War II, he was blamed for holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. He also held up the news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that...