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...life, but only managed to sound like anxious schoolmarms trying to restore order after the cry of "School's Out" has sounded. Replying to Winston Churchill's toast at a dinner given in his honor by the Anglo-American Pilgrim Society, NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway last week said that the massive Red army could still pluck Europe like an overripe plum. The Cold Peace boys assume that because an equilibrium between East & West is planned, it is already here. The fact is, said Ridgway, that NATO's strength in Europe is woefully below "minimum...
...Paris, SHAPE Commander Matthew B. Ridgway received from Designer Henri Roger and Engraver Paul Sire a specially struck silver medal symbolizing their protest against "Communist insults" to the general...
Holdfast's strategists had developed their plan after studying German tactics in the long retreat from Stalingrad (in which the Germans first used the word "hedgehog"), Britain's experiences with Rommel in Africa, and NATO Commander Matt Ridgway's own mobile defenses against enemy masses in Korea. The maneuvers were commanded by General Sir John Harding, a veteran of Britain's desert battles in World War II and a hedgehog pioneer. Neither General Harding nor anyone else suggested that NATO's present divisions (hopefully estimated at 47 by year's end) could actually stop...
Thorez continued to give the orders from Moscow, and Tillon, 55, was given a distasteful job: working for Stalin's phony "peace crusade." Marty and Tillon called it ridiculous and absurd. What they wanted was riots, strikes, rebellion. Last May, when General Ridgway arrived in Paris, Marty organized Red riots which failed miserably and ended with the arrest of Jacques Duclos, No. 2 man of French Communism and in charge of the party while Thorez is away. To make matters worse, Marty used Duclos' month in jail to carry out a quick, private purge of the French Communist...
...solemn ceremony in Suresnes, France, SHAPE Chief Matthew B. Ridgway & wife, General George C. Marshall and France's Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin joined in the dedication of two new wings on the memorial chapel in the American Military Cemetery, where U.S. dead of both world wars are buried. Marshall, as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, delivered the main address...