Word: koreanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quick switch to the Moscow line the Communists became just about the only Korean group not on record against the Moscow agreement. Later, when Hodge and the Russian officials in the north got together to discuss a joint occupation plan, all negotiations broke down over Russian insistence that no Koreans who had opposed trusteeship be allowed to participate in the Government. The Americans, who had won over many Korean leaders to the idea that independence must come gradually, wanted to put the exclusion clause in the future tense, and exclude only those who should try to fan up opposition...
...busy week-he was moving his department from the old State building* on Pennsylvania Avenue to the new War Department Building on 21st Street -Secretary Marshall also found time to write Molotov a note about Korea. He would be glad to begin negotiations looking toward an independent Korean Government, but only on the basis of the U.S. definition of democratic procedure...
This action will consist of building up Korean participation in running the southern half of the country until a provisional government evolves. Then it will be up to the Russians to show that they have done as much for the northern half, and merge the two. But as long as the steel wall remains, the truncated economy of the south must be made to grow new industrial limbs. The U.S. will ship in equipment and supplies. For this year, at least, it will also have to ship in food because of crop failures and lack of fertilizer...
...Korean Choice. The revised U.S. policy would by no means satisfy pro-American leaders in Korea. They had been ready with spontaneously formed people's councils to take over their own government as soon as Japan surrendered. In Dr. Syngman Rhee, long an exile and Korea's most distinguished and provocative spokesman, they had a man qualified to head an interim regime. But in Washington last week Rhee complained that Lieut. General John R. Hodge, head of the occupation forces, had prematurely insisted on an all-embracing coalition. Liberation from the Japanese, said Rhee, had not brought liberty...
...occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice rationing, which soon resulted in a critical shortage, a black market and inflation. That the Russians were making mistakes, too, in the northern sector was evidenced by the thousands of Koreans attempting to flee to the south...