Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai, Ridgway proposed that choice of a new site be discussed by liaison officers, and added: "Further use of . . . Kaesong will inevitably result in additional interruptions . . . and further delays...
...cinema version reunites the play's author, who worked on the script, its director, Elia Kazan, and most of the original principals, including Marlon (The Men) Brando as the tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...
...scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message from Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai to Ridgway, they gave away what really seemed to be worrying them: "You have the audacity to regard yourselves as the victors...
Admiral Joy promptly reported the violation to General Ridgway in Tokyo. If the Reds had any doubts left about U.S. firmness at Kaesong, Ridgway cleared them up fast. He called off next day's conference, sent a coldly stern message to the Red commanders, North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai: ". . . I now invite your attention to this flagrant violation of the assurances which I required and which you promised. [Until] a satisfactory explanation of this violation and assurance of a nonrecurrence are received . . . the United Nations Command delegation will remain...
Ridgway accepted Kaesong as the meeting place, shrewdly tried to hurry the Reds as to the date of the meeting. His answer to their reply: GENERAL KIM IL SUNG: GENERAL PENG TEH-HUAI...