Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds' forward supply areas. The war ground on in what one reporter called a "fluid stalemate." U.N. commanders were sure that the Reds would try another offensive push, estimated that despite heavy casualties they had 600,000 troops ready to fight in Korea. Said U.N. Commander General Ridgway: "With [the Chinese Communists] there is no compromise, and for us there is no choice...
...comrades furtively read leaflets dropped by U.N. planes (though the penalty for having a leaflet was a bullet). Thus Wang learned who General Ridgway was. He had long understood that Truman was America's Mao, but he had never heard of MacArthur. When shown magazine pictures, he could name only Mao and Stalin...
...claimed 35,000 enemy casualties in five days of fighting. But General Ridgway, making his fourth visit to the front since he became commander in chief, asked for an end to such guesses, ordered that claims henceforth be limited to counted enemy dead and prisoners...
...General Assembly, India's Sir Benegal Rau gleefully scooped up the Johnson idea, also recalled a recent statement by General Matthew Ridgway: "It would be a tremendous victory for the United Nations if the war ended with our forces in control up to the 38th parallel." The Kremlin seemed interested, too. The Moscow press printed the full text of Johnson's proposal. So did New York's Daily Worker; it commented significantly: "Why wait till June 25? End the killing now . . . Stop the war . . . Start talking with China and Korea...
When Commander in Chief Ridgway (with whom Van Fleet had fought side by side in France) arrived last week for a tour of the front, the two three-star generals boarded Ridgway's C-54 at Eighth Army headquarters at Taegu and flew north. They landed first near I Corps headquarters of Lieut. General Frank ("Shrimp") Milburn. The three of them piled into a jeep, looking from the rear like three G.l.s out to scrounge chickens. Then Ridgway and Van Fleet transferred to light liaison planes, in four hours covered most of the Korean front, talked to eight division...