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...term limit would not apply to "the first President of the Republic"-himself. To pass the amendment, he needed more than a two-thirds majority, or better than 135 votes out of the 203-man Assembly. But he had only 100 votes. His leaders set to work cultivating opposition Assemblymen with so many favors, Bank of Korea loans and automobiles, that the legislature became known as the "Sedan Assembly." By late summer Rhee's Liberal Party numbered 137, and Rhee looked like a winner...
...Mendès, reflected "losses already suffered or rendered inevitable by the military situation." But Mendès then went on to claim that Geneva would permit France to retain its "presence" in the Far East, even that Geneva had improved relations between France, Britain and the U.S. The Assemblymen clapped hands when Mendès mentioned his good friend Anthony Eden; for the name Foster Dulles they had nothing but silence...
...reflected and helped increase some sense of a new firmness in France itself. The fall of Dienbienphu had not led to hysterical demands for peace at any price, as the Communists had hoped. French pride was offended. French anger aroused. At the much feared debate on Indo-China, French Assemblymen had cried not for immediate surrender, but for more vigorous efforts to meet new Viet Minh attacks. The Cabinet itself reacted. It pledged itself to the defense of the whole Red River Delta. Marc Jacquet, an apostle of despair, was forced out. General Navarre was relieved, and General Paul...
...retaliation, Rhee decided to make his constitutional changes the central issue of the May 20 general elections. Of the 96 Liberal Assemblymen up for reelection, he gave official party backing to only 42, and hand-picked most of the other 270 Liberal candidates. All Liberals, whether picked by Rhee or not, were required to sign written pledges promising to vote for the President's constitutional amendments...
...Normal strength is 203, but since the 1950 elections, 24 Assemblymen have died, been abducted to Communist North Korea, or simply vanished...