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Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
...French court had just decided that, although Duclos had been arrested during the Communist Ridgway riots on May 28 in a car fitted out with blackjack, loaded pistol and those two famous eating squabs (TIME, June 16), he was not in flagrante delicto (caught in the act), and was therefore entitled to parliamentary immunity as a member of the National Assembly. The five-man Paris appeals court (from whose decision there is no appeal) is headed by President Paul Didier, member of the Communist-backed "Peace Partisans...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...
...Could your hatred of Ridgway be caused by the fact that he is too good a general...
...haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will be welcome as it was in the past...