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...Sunday morning, Japanese newspapers carried his first public statement to the Japanese, stressing the continuance of MacArthur's occupation policy in phrases that were Ridgway's, yet still bore a strong resemblance to MacArthur's old-fashioned prose...
...Thursday afternoon, in neat but well-worn combat fatigues, his celebrated hand grenade dangling from his paratrooper's harness, Ridgway drove toward the Dai Ichi headquarters of SCAP. A block away he saw a waiting crowd of 3,000; impulsively he turned back to pay his respects to MacArthur first. The new SCAP and the old spent an hour together at the American Embassy. "A delightful talk," said Ridgway later. That evening he went back to Korea...
...Saturday, at his little-used office in the Eighth Army's rear headquarters, Ridgway prepared to relinquish his old command. "This is not goodbye in any sense of the word," he told correspondents, "because I am still very much a part of this team." Before his final departure for Tokyo, he turned reassuringly to his successor, Lieut. General James Van Fleet. "I won't get in your hair, Van," he said...
Once more in Tokyo, Ridgway checked in at a newly refurbished four-room suite in the Imperial Hotel. He started doing business from the hotel. He demurred at using the Dai Ichi building until after MacArthur had left...
While their husbands were meeting at Eighth Army headquarters in Korea, Mrs. Frank Pace Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Army, joined Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway in pouring tea for a benefit fashion show at the Army Medical Center in Washington...