Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhee hesitated, then replied: "If the people wish it, I will resign." At that moment, twelve years of Korean history -years when the words "Syngman Rhee" and "South Korea" had been virtually synonymous-came to an end, and the students burst into tears...
While Rhee did his belated pruning, Huh Chung energetically set about repairing the wrecked machinery of Korean government. Former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was arrested for his flagrant falsifying of the March 15 election, confessed that in accordance with a Cabinet decision, he had collected the written resignations of all Korea's mayors and police chiefs before the elections, and told them their resignations would be accepted unless "they secured victory for Rhee and Lee Ki Poong." But he credited the national police director with the plan for "stuffing ballot boxes beforehand with 40% Liberal votes." Then...
...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's re-election as President. Recalled to political office as mayor of Seoul...
...fighting man who boasts that "I have fought 200 battles and never lost one." A farmer's son who was conscripted by the Japanese army and served as a sergeant in the Japanese infantry during World War II, Song was one of the first officers commissioned in the Korean forces, rose in four years (1946-50) from second lieutenant to brigadier general. As commander of the R.O.K. army's crack Capital Division for most of the Korean war, he fought brilliantly all the way from the Pusan perimeter to the Yalu, earned from U.S. General James Van Fleet...
Father of two small children, Song is so taciturn that during the last stalemated months of the Korean war, he gave Dwight Eisenhower one of the 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...