Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Want-Ike faction was hard at work. Such shrewd politicos as Pennsylvania's James Duff, Kansas' Frank Carlson and Harry Darby were saying openly that Eisenhower would definitely run-and as a Republican, not a Democrat. A wealthy New Jersey lawyer named Amos J. Peaslee, who backed Harold Stassen in 1948, was rounding up a group of influential Republicans to talk up Stassen again as a candidate...
Said Douglas: "We deal here with speech alone, not with speech plus acts of sabotage or unlawful conduct." He went on to ridicule the notion of a clear and present danger from U.S. Reds: "Communism in the world scene is no bogeyman; but Communists as a political faction or party in this country plainly is." U.S. Communists, he said, are "merchants of unwanted ideas...
...Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
Rhee's critics call him "reactionary" by citing the wealthy men and old nobility who support him. Most of the Rhee faction are septuagenarians; American-educated Rhee is 76, and Lee's age was reported as 83 when he resigned. Rhee is self-assured, stubborn, and dictatorial. He has been actively heading the Korean independence movement since 1919 when he was elected President of the Korean Republic in exile. (Korea was handed over to Japan as a bribe for recognition of American interests in the Philippines...
...Rhee is corrupt and reactionary is not the main issue with the Korean voters. The major difficulty is that his government is impotent. Its naive, clumsy attempts to feed, clothe, and house the Korean people have failed. Such a leadership vacuum cannot last much longer. If Rhee and his faction bide their time until pro-Communist reformers are voted into office, then the objectives of the UN forces in Korea will have been lost...