GENERAL MATTHEW B. RIDGWAY - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 169065
Sale Price $429.00
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MATTHEW RIDGWAY
He signs a typescript discussing the prolonged cease-fire talks in
Korea.
Typescript signed: "M. B. Ridgway", 1 page, 8½x11. In full:
"I was not unfamiliar with the Communist tactic of trying to wear down an
opponent through endless and pointless argument, for in two and a half years
with the United Nations I had experienced plenty of it, but I could not begin to
foresee the wearying months of fruitless discussion that lay ahead. While both
sides had immediately agreed that hostilities should continue during
negotiations, it seemed to me, with a cease fire faintly visible on the horizon,
that I should do all I could to keep our losses at a justifiable minimum. I
notified my commanders therefore that we would conduct no major offensives but
would seek to retain the initiative through the use of strong patrols and local
attacks designed to seize key terrain which would extend our observation and
curtail the enemy's. When the first anniversary of the opening of hostilities
arrived, I thought peace might be just around the next corner. Yet there were
still two years and many lives and more blood between us and the constant dream
of every soldier." The World War II General who saw action at Salerno,
Normandy (parachuted on D-Day) and the Battle of the Bulge, was Commander of
the Eighth Army in Korea. When he took over in December 1950, he moved
immediately to revitalize the seriously demoralized Army and succeeded so well
that by late January 1951, the Eighth Army took the offensive again. He
replaced General MacArthur as Allied Commander of the U.N. forces in the Far
East after MacArthur was recalled by President Truman in April 1951. Under
his leadership, the Korean armistice talks began in July 1951. He succeeded
Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe in 1952 and
was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1953-1955. Fold crease, not near
signature. Fine condition.
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