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...months the Korean government of Syngman Rhee and its benevolent ally, the U.S., had been in a polite wrangle over currency payments. On top of the brutal ravages of war, South Korea was suffering, as it had since war's beginning, from galloping inflation. As prices kept on rising, the Rhee government demanded some $90 million in repayment for Korean won withdrawn by U.S. military and other agencies for their day-to-day uses. The U.S. recognized the debt, but before it 'paid the money it wanted some assurance that a new flood of dollars would...
...correspondents, always reluctant to credit a general with anything more than bare literacy, continued to characterize him as a "bluff soldier"-a combat type with no political brains. What they meant was that he did not agree with their judgment of how to treat Korea's Syngman Rhee. Van Fleet, simple in the sense that he knows a simple issue when he sees one, recognized Rhee as the only Korean leader of any substance. His policy was to work with Rhee while the U.S. State Department's men in Korea tended to tear Rhee down without having...
...Next day Rhee, one of Korea's few remaining tigers, took off for Seoul, proclaiming enigmatically that his visit had "achieved more than I had anticipated...
Largely because of Rhee's attitude, Korean and Japanese negotiators have failed to solve the postwar problems of Japan Sea fishing rights, Japanese property claims growing out of the 35-year occupation of Korea, and the standing of Koreans in Japan. The two countries have continued to feud, without benefit of diplomatic ties. Last fall General Mark Clark audaciously invited Rhee to call on him in Tokyo, and last week, 77-year-old Syngman Rhee flew to Tokyo with his forceful, Austrian-born wife, who is 20 years his junior. He was, he said, "willing to meet Japan halfway...
...Rhee, Yoshida and Clark talked guardedly about Korea-Japan relations. At one point, Yoshida recalled hunting in Korea early in the century, asked Rhee: "Are there still many tigers in Korea?" "No," replied Syngman Rhee, "there are not many tigers left...