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Flagrante Delicto. These were only warmups for the arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
...France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal-and-steel pool. When (and if) ratified, it will weld 400,000 armed Germans into a supranational European Army, responsible to NATO's new Commander Matt Ridgway. Ancient Dream. At 5:12 p.m., the six Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain's Anthony Eden, made their way through a battery of klieg lights to an E-shaped conference table. France's Robert Schuman tapped for silence...
...Stalin Prize for the first volume of his novel Le Premier Choc (The First Blow), glorifying French stevedores who end up sabotaging U.S. military shipments to France under the Atlantic Pact. Last week Editor Stil was doing even better work for the party. On the eve of General Ridgway's arrival in Paris to take over NATO's command, he proclaimed mass demonstrations against the "microbe killer," ran cartoons showing Ridgway leading an army of insects. L'Humanité's articles were more than polemics; reading like marching orders ("All workers and inhabitants will come...
...north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that they were not. Ridgway-and Washington-backed...
...Along with Generals Ridgway, Clark and Collins...