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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...
...Hostile forces, built up during the truce negotiations, now have "a substantially greater offensive potential than at any time in the past...
...somehow or other it emerged with 59,000 North Korean and Chinese prisoners who would not "forcibly resist" repatriation. By scraping around among dissident South Koreans, it raised the number of those willing to go north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that...
...Columbia 56 years ago, he is a direct descendant of President William Henry Harrison. A class of '17 West Pointer,* he was an assistant division commander in World War II and was wounded in France. Now deputy commander of the Eighth Army, he joined Admiral Joy's truce team last January, and was Joy's own choice for his successor...
Again & again, Joy suggested an indefinite suspension of the truce talks, for if the Communists would not accept the final U.N. offer, there was no more to say. Nam blandly insisted on meeting every day. The Communists, he said, wanted to put the "truth" before the world. Nam, in effect, dared the U.N. itself to break off the talks, and counted on the U.N.'s obvious reluctance...