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...Communists had found a way to beat General Ridgway's "killer" offensive: they pulled back out of range, faster than Ridgway cared to follow, and Chinese casualties due to ground action fell off sharply...
...good time, Ridgway was following, however, and there was some political uproar last week over whether he should or should not cross the 38th parallel. The uproar was largely meaningless, because: 1) the U.N. had already authorized MacArthur to operate anywhere in Korea, and the authorization remained valid until withdrawn; 2) for military rather than political reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff begrudged every mile of northward advance. With every mile Ridgway moved northward, the Communist supply lines from their Manchurian "sanctuary" grew shorter (therefore less vulnerable to air attack), and the U.N. lines grew longer...
...Peking radio admitted that Seoul had fallen, but called it a "temporary withdrawal." General Ridgway had been wisely unwilling to accept the casualties of a frontal attack. Instead, he had put a bridgehead across the Han east of the capital. When the bridgehead outflanked the Red defenders, they pulled...
...central mountains, the Red rearguards put up more of a fight. When they did pull back, they left behind mines, booby traps, even dummies to man their abandoned positions. Hongchon, Pungam and some other towns fell to Ridgway's careful, crunching advance, which was approaching the important Red base at Chunchon (see map), which the Reds this week were reported to be abandoning. Of the captured towns, the most important was Hongchon, once thought to be the headquarters of the Chinese 39th and 40th armies and probable origin of the Red assaults on Hoengsong last month. TIME Correspondent...
...Pentagon estimated the proportion of Communist-to-U.N. casualties for the last six weeks at 20 to i. Said the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway: "The allied ground, sea, and air forces have let a lot of air out of the inflated balloon of the Chinese military establishments. Meanwhile, in the degree to which we deflate her military reputation, we influence the thinking of millions & millions of people in Asia. Eventually it must react on the political actions of their government. This would be of tremendous importance...