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...embassy boss was Marshall Green, experienced, red-haired charge d'affaires in Seoul. Almost as soon as the sound of the junta's guns rattled Seoul's windows, both were out of bed and drafting public statements condemning the revolt and backing the government of Premier Chang. Neither waited to consult Washington. General Magruder urged that Korean armed forces chiefs "use their authority and influence to see that control is immediately turned back to the lawful governmental authorities.'' Added Diplomat Green: "I wish to make it emphatically clear that the United States supports the constitutional...
...junta felt justifiably confident that General Magruder would not use the two American divisions under his command to contest the coup. When Magruder and Green arrived in midmorning to argue with General Chang and his four fellow junta chiefs, the Korean generals brushed off the Americans with a flat refusal to end the revolt...
...revolutionary committee's first communique pledged to "oppose Communism as its primary objective . . . root out corruption . . . solve the misery of the masses . . . transfer power to new and conscientious politicians as soon as our mission has been completed, and return to our original duties." General Chang, a North Korean who was drafted into the Japanese army and graduated from a Japanese military academy, is well known and popular among U.S. officers, who helped him rise to the top in the ROK army by arranging to send him to the U.S. for a year's study at the Command...
Leavenworth in 1952. In Manhattan, General James A. Van Fleet, the former U.N. commander in Korea who had staked his faith in South Korea's fighting men and had been proved right, flatly endorsed Chang and his generals. "We have no stauncher allies," he said. "Let's keep them on our side." General Chang is a special favorite of Magruder himself...
Premier's Problems. Was General Chang the new boss? The man who planned the coup was not Chang but his powerful colleague on the junta, Major General Pak Chung Hi, 44. Reportedly, Pak's representatives went to Chang, told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...