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Late last week South Korea's Acting President Huh Chung turned up at the U.S. embassy in Seoul for an hour's secret talk with Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy. Nervous!)', Huh insisted that Rhee's presence in Seoul was defeating the government's efforts to re-establish stability. With mounting support, militant students and left-wing politicians were demanding that Rhee be put on trial on charges ranging from the "murder" of political opponents to the alleged misappropriation of $20 million in foreign exchange during his twelve years in office...
When he left the embassy, Huh Chung took with him the promise of U.S. diplomatic visitors' visas for Rhee and his Austrian wife Francesca. Early next morning, the Rhees slipped aboard a heavily guarded chartered DC-4 at Kimpo Airport. Apart from four suitcases and two small overnight bags, they left behind all their possessions, even abandoned one of their Pekingese dogs which had been refusing...
...week's end, 21 villagers abruptly surrendered; each swore that he was the one who had actually finished off Park. Scores of others stood by chanting "We too, we too; either punish all or none." The caretaker Huh Chung government promised another "investigation." But the guess was that the lynching at Shinwon would be sadly written off as an unhappy aftermath of the long wrongs of the Syngman Rhee regime...
...reform week for Acting President Huh Chung's caretaker government. Everywhere, officials of the old regime were being accused, scorned or arrested. The Ministry of Finance set up screening committees charged with first identifying corrupt tax officials, then ferreting them out. The head of the Bank of Korea revealed that his institution had been used by Rhee officials to get kickbacks on loan applications. The police haul included Kang Hak Lee, chief of all Korea's police, who was charged with embezzling $120,000 from police funds and with printing fake Communist leaflets to stuff in the pockets...
Acting President Huh Chung, 64, is a scholarly, energetic ex-journalist whose ability repeatedly brought him jobs in Rhee's government and whose principles repeatedly got him fired. As Rhee's first Transportation Minister, Huh (rhymes with "uh") ran Korea's railroads with what admirers called "American hustle," and as Minister of Social Welfare, he efficiently supervised distribution of relief supplies during the Korean war. After a brief spell as Acting Premier, he broke with Rhee in 1952 over the strong-arm tactics used to bulldoze the National Assembly into voting constitutional changes intended to ensure Rhee...