Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form a delegation to see Rhee. Fourteen responded. Song chose five and personally escorted them to the presidential mansion. There, as Song stood by beaming paternally, the students told Rhee: "The only way to solve the problem is to hold new elections-and also for you to offer to resign...
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...
...family had taken refuge in the heavily guarded presidential compound. There, crammed into a single room with his wife and two sons, Lee sought vainly for a way of escaping the net that was closing in on him. To a close friend Lee confided: "Rhee has ordered me to resign my post. If I do so, my enemies will crush me to earth, and my family will find themselves living on rice crumbs and water." His younger son, Lee Kong Wook, 18, urged that the men of the family meet their enemies in the streets and die fighting...
...when the Korean public would accept gestures in lieu of performance had passed. Summoned to Rhee's office, six of Korea's most respected statesmen all gave him the same advice: Lee Ki Poong, whose fraudulent election had made him the prime target of popular hatred, must resign as Vice President-elect...
...Pawn? The explosion in Commons could hardly have been louder. From the Labor benches came angry howls of "Resign . . . resign." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose Laborites have long insisted that Blue Streak should not have been undertaken in the first place, was on his feet demanding an immediate investigation; when he was refused, he promised to force a vote of censure after the Easter recess. Tory backbenchers were shocked. It was, said Conservative F. W. Farey-Jones, a "calamitous" move, and one that would put Britain's proud science "in pawn to the U.S. for the next...