Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security Council, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and seven other top advisers. Next morning the President made his decision on the next step. He said he was "moderately hopeful" that it would bring peace in Korea. The plan was to have General Matthew Ridgway, as U.N. commander, invite the enemy to a field parley...
...Friday the details were drawn up. Within three hours, Ridgway was carrying out his instructions. Nearly 100 radio stations beamed his words, in English, Korean and Chinese, to "the Commander in Chief, Communist Forces in Korea...
...throwing his peace grenade, Russia's Malik had chosen his time well. These factors made for maximum effect: 1) it was the week in which General Ridgway had firmly asked the United Nations for more ground troops, a request that had been heard with markedly little enthusiasm; 2) it was the week in which the West had broken off Paris talks, and Russia was temporarily without a seat at any active negotiations table...
...after Malik's peace proposal, General Matthew Ridgway in Tokyo issued an anniversary statement that had the sound of a reply. Excerpts...
Their return to full participation in civilian life was authorized by General Ridgway. Fifty thousand more Japanese will eventually be allowed to come out of enforced retirement. Likely to remain banned indefinitely: 20,000 war criminals, officers of terrorist societies and members of the "thought police...