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General of the Army Omar Bradley, on his first visit to the Far East since the Korean war began, flew to Tokyo last week to talk-in closest secrecy-with General Ridgway. He was accompanied by the State Department's handsome Russian-speaking expert on the Communist mind, Counselor Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen. In effect, the move put the Pentagon and the State Department in Tokyo, by proxy, for a quick decision if one should prove necessary...
...General Ridgway, over the juniors' heads, appealed directly to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai for a change of site to Songhyon, a mud-hut village eight miles southeast of Kaesong. Songhyon, said Ridgway, would have the advantage of being "approximately midway between the battle lines" and "it would, of course, be agreed by both sides that this meeting place would be kept free of armed troops and that both sides would abstain from any hostile acts...
...first time since ex-President Ulysses S. Grant visited Emperor Meiji in 1879, American guests were entertained in Tokyo's imperial household with top diplomatic honors. To celebrate the peace treaty, Emperor Hirohito invited General Matthew Ridgway and his wife to a royal luncheon, at which Empress Nagato set the conversational tone with a little story. The day the treaty was signed, a white crane had alighted in a treetop on the palace grounds. The Japanese took this, she said, as a good omen for peace...
Meanwhile, the Reds officially rejected General Ridgway's proposal that the site of the cease-fire talks be changed. They branded it an attempt to "run away from your side's responsibility for violation of the Kaesong neutrality agreement...
This week, in a message to the Communist leaders, Ridgway firmly repeated that, after thorough investigation, all the Red charges except the one apologized for had been found false. He added: "I again emphasize my concern in the achievement of a just and honorable military armistice ... I am still prepared to order my liaison officers to a meeting ... to discuss . . . resumption of the armistice talks...