Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman of the week was a trench-coated soldier with a hand grenade taped to his shoulder harness. Almost from the moment the truce talks started in "neutral" Kaesong, General Matt Ridgway had chafed under a sense of an intolerable situation. The choice was to accept a long-drawn-out negotiation and daily humiliation, or to force a showdown...
...addition to their three negotiators, they would bring interpreters, "reception personnel and assistants." They evidently expected to act as hosts in Kaesong, although the town was well in front of their main positions and had been regarded by the Eighth Army as in no man's land. Ridgway let that pass, but he announced a "neutral zone" of five miles' radius around Kaesong, which told the Reds clearly that the area was dominated by the Eighth Army...
...Three Colonels. The U.N. mission traveling to Kaesong in its helicopters consisted of three colonels: Andrew Kinney of the U.S. Air Force, James Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around...
...Duelist. All week long, in the somber, paneled office in Tokyo's DaiIchi Building once occupied by Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Ridgway had directed the moves, as cool and poised as a duelist. Outside his office, the busy buzzers and flashing lights resembled a pinball machine. At every flash or buzz, an aide shot into action...
Although he was operating under broad directives from Washington, and clearing all his messages to the Communists with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ridgway had the widest latitude in handling ceasefire strategy. In Washington, and particularly with the Joint Chiefs, his stock had never been higher. His diplomatic experience in dealing with Latin American affairs (in the 1920s), in the Philippines, as Caribbean theater commander after World War II and as a member of the U.N.'s Military Staff Committee now stood him in good stead...