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...Ridgway, a soldier who possesses a passionate sense of detail, an instinct for the bonds that unite a commander and his troops, and a nice flair for showmanship, it was no effort at all. A few minutes later the general climbed into his helicopter and whirred off to another sector of his front line...
This week the Reds broke contact over most of a 70-mile front, fell back to lick their wounds. Matthew Ridgway, who is not given to boasting, claimed a clear-cut victory: "We have defeated the Communist counteroffensive in the central sector. The Communists have taken a fearful beating, and have disengaged...
...moving swiftly last week to set up an air screen in a neglected sector: North Africa (see map). By agreement with France, the U.S. would put an estimated $30 million and some 20,000 men into French Morocco. Six enlarged and reconstructed bases, plus one new field, to handle all types of U.S. fighting aircraft, would be ready by midsummer...
...What Is in the Hearts." What was to be the U.S. contribution? Not large numbers of troops. Said Eisenhower: "We cannot concentrate ... in any one sector, even when one is as important as Western Europe. We must largely sit here with a great mobile, powerful reserve, ready to support our policies . . . wherever they may be endangered in the world...
...first day of the west-sector attack, as the U.N. forces rolled across a scorched and blasted strip of no man's land, enemy resistance was negligible, except at Kumyangjang, where 474 were killed by air strikes and Turks (see The Allies). Later, Chinese resistance stiffened. At week's end, when an armored U.S. task force had slashed within eleven miles of Seoul, the Chinese were counterattacking in battalion strength. They were also using land mines and ambushes...