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...hush settled over the blasted land scape at 10 p.m. on July 27, 1953. General Matthew Ridgway, commander of the United Nations forces, later recalled that "there was no wild celebrating or fraternizing such as had marked the end of other wars." Men slumped wearily around a bottle of whisky or tried the unusual sensation of standing upright without flinching. Thus, after two years and 17 days of simultaneous fighting and negotiating, the Korean War came to an end just 15 years ago this week. The U.S. suffered 140,000 casualties, including 34,000 dead, in the more than three...
...university were real and targets included university decision-making in real estate, discipline, and accessibility of senior faculty. Columbia's self-perpetuating Board of Trustees exerts control over faculty and students on most university issues of consequence. Thus Columbia's enormous real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when the students began to protest real estate practices in Harlem. Disciplinary decisions came from...
...President should then appoint a commission for the purpose of proposing a new policy. Kennedy's suggested members for the group included himself and such men as Yale President Kingman Brewster, former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Generals Lauris Norstad and Matthew Ridgway...
...leaders. In a concentrated effort to line up bipartisan support, Johnson summoned Republican Leaders Everett Dirksen and Gerald Ford to a lengthy White House briefing and dispatched an aide to former President Eisenhower's winter home in Indian Wells, Calif. Diplomatic and military experts such as General Matthew Ridgway, Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor were asked for advice...
Korea, writes Ridgway, "taught us that all warfare from this time forth must be limited. It could no longer be a question of whether to fight a limited war, but of how to avoid fighting any other kind." Yet he suggests that a major military test with Communism is still to come-offering no speculation on how or where. Viet Nam, in his view, is not the place. That war, he believes, represents an overdraft on American resources that is disproportionate to the national interest in that part of the world. He fears that the U.S. may find itself "unduly...