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...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...
Like Rhee, Huh is a Methodist and has close ties to the U.S.; he spent the better part of twelve years of exile in New York, and his elder child (a daughter) is currently doing graduate work at Northwestern. Blessed with an independent income from land, Huh belongs to no political party, and between government jobs devotes himself to reading and study. When Rhee finally stepped down last week, Huh argued that as Rhee's appointee (he had just returned to the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary), he should resign, too. Persuaded to stay on as caretaker chief of state...
...shortest briefings in military history: "We are ready to attack the enemy-who is over there." Song is a passionate believer in civilian supremacy, argues that, "If the military take over, our democracy will go and our fight against Communism is vain." Late last week, when Acting President Huh offered to make him Defense Minister, Song flatly declined...