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Empty Chair. On the summit's first day, he had broken up the meeting before it could even begin, with his demands that President Eisenhower punish the guilty U.S. "aggressors." But he did not turn around and go home. Did he really expect a contrite confession from Eisenhower after insulting him up and down...
...Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev vented a bitter attack on the U.S. and on Dwight Eisenhower. He withdrew his invitation to the President to visit Russia next month. He demanded an apology for the U-2 flight, threatened to break up the summit conference unless the U.S. would promise to punish all responsible for the flight and promise that all such overflights cease. He suggested, in the kind of face to face insult that strained even cold war diplomacy, that the summit should be adjourned until the U.S. could elect a new president...
...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...
...Other regimes that have ruled illegally have justified their rule by arguments like yours. Syngman Rhee had an obedient police force, civil service and army in his hand, but you don't even command the loyalty of those forces." By giving a committee summary powers to investigate and punish police and army men, Inonu argued, the Democrats had "inevitably" proclaimed doubts of the officers' loyalties. "Those who seek to establish a coercive regime must believe that the Turkish nation is imbued with less self-respect than Korea," he cried...
Thus, the U.S. has a potent weapon to reward its friends and punish its enemies, a weapon that more than balances the problematical gains that might be had by abolishing the quotas altogether...