795B.5/9–3051: Telegram
The Commander in Chief, Far East (Ridgway) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CX–51897. From CINCFE to JCS Washington, D.C. Info Department Army for Office of Secretary Defense (Personal for Mr. Frank Nash), State Department. This message in three parts.
Part 1. Subject is Hot Pursuit. Action on steps to be taken case of breakdown in negotiations in Korea was postponed at last Wednesday NSC meeting pending further study of desirability of instituting Hot Pursuit. Generals Ridgway and Weyland of opinion that this step is undesirable. Build-up of Communist fighter strength including available Soviet fighters makes the disregarding of the Yalu River as a boundary to fighter action meaningless.
Part 2. Subject contemplated action in case of all-out hostile air attack. For your further information, Ridgway contemplates that retaliatory air attacks would be limited at least initially to those air fields in the Antung area and possibly on the Shantung Peninsula if attacks were coming from there.
Part 3. Concur in the foregoing appreciations and recommend that we remove Hot Pursuit as one of the actions to be taken. Signed Bradley.