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...Korea, the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway said to Joe Collins: "There is no shadow of doubt that the Eighth Army can take care of itself." The pattern of last week's fighting (see below) made General Ridgway's assertion look better than it would have looked the week before...
...Eighth Army last week clamped an airtight censorship on all news from Korea. Colonel R. L. Thompson, Major General Matthew Ridgway's information boss, issued 1,600 words of regulations that forbade correspondents to describe armament and equipment, discuss the Army's "strength, efficiency, morale," identify troops by unit or location, or even to mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass...
...plight in Korea, could scarcely do more to help the refugees. No one knew what was to become of them if & when the U.N. line once more shrank to the narrow Pusan perimeter-or the U.N. forces were forced out of Korea altogether. Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the refugees' plight: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has ever been subjected in the course of its long history . . . Everything else is dwarfed by the pathos of this tragedy, and our American people haven't the faintest concept of it. In the words of Shakespeare...
...Corps (one Marine, two Army and two R.O.K. divisions), which had been evacuated from Hungnam to Pusan and Pohang, was made a part of the Eighth Army. Thus, Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, the Eighth Army's new commander, became MacArthur's overall ground commander in Korea. After a brief stop in Tokyo, Paratrooper Ridgway last week arrived in Korea to take over his command. Said he to his staff: "You will have my utmost. I expect yours." Said he to South Korea's Syngman Rhee: "I aim to stay...
...Korea, Matt Ridgway would not need culture and diplomacy: he would need all his ability as a fighting commander to stave off a powerful, ruthless...