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Leaving the appalling mess of the Korean truce talks and the prisoner-of-war issue behind him, Matthew Bunker Ridgway headed for his new job: Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe. When his Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's National Airport one evening last week, Matt Ridgway, a four-star general in midpassage, had a chance to talk to his bosses about the gloomy past and the hopeful, dangerous future...
...walked briskly down the gangway with pretty Mary Ridgway and three-year-old Matthew Jr. Then the general was whisked off behind sirens to touch all the main bases in Washington...
...last week people were saying that U.S. military men have no more political sense than so many boobies. Red China newspapers screamed that a U.S. general had confessed atrocities. At Tokyo's Haneda airport, General Mark Wayne Clark, the new Far East commander, watched his predecessor, General Matt Ridgway, fly happily off to the U.S., leaving Clark with a mess on his hands. Ample portions of blame had already been meted out to the two squirming brigadiers, Dodd and Colson, but some blame would undoubtedly fall on Ridgway and on the Eighth Army's Van Fleet...
Born: May 1, 1896, at an Army post in Madison Bar racks, N.Y. Clark's father-Colonel Charles C. Clark-was, like Ridgway's father, a Regular Army officer...
However humiliating the U.S. posture was on Koje Island the U.N. position at Panmunjom continued strong and rocklike. With firm backing from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom stood resolutely by their package offer. Said Matt Ridgway, on the eve of his departure: "We cannot and shall not retreat...