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...29th year in prison. In 1912, two years after Japan openly annexed his country, the radical fled from Korea and from the Japanese police, who quite correctly suspected him of plotting against their regime. In the next 33 years the world's diplomats came to know stubborn Syngman Rhee as a tiresome, zealous exile, vainly pleading the cause of Korean independence, frantically warning that Japan was a menace to peace. Even after the defeat of Japan in World War II, Syngman Rhee still blew on the fingers his torturers had mashed, still recklessly declared his hatred for the Japanese...
...miles to Seoul, spent three days appraising the Korean war with the world's most practiced inspecting eye. He talked face to face, piling question on question, with the top U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force commanders in the Pacific, with Korea's doughty President Rhee, with European allies, U.S. diplomats, young front-line officers and G.I.s. Then he went into retreat with his staff on the U.S.S. Helena in mid-Pacific to translate a feeling for the situation into a course of action...
...diplomat caught one last hot potato. During his visit, he met three times with South Korea's President Syngman Rhee (and publicly said that Rhee "shows every qualification of a great leader"). But on Ike's last crowded afternoon, Rhee's agents buzzed around headquarters insisting that Rhee would lose face if Ike did not pay a return call on the presidential mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy...
...Tokyo, representatives of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America presented Far East Commander General Mark Clark and South Korean President Syngman Rhee with the first two copies of the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible...
There is a widespread impression in the U.S. that South Korea's experiment with democratic government has gone poorly mainly because of the autocratic personality of President Syngman Rhee. Published this week is a vigorous dissent from this view: The Korea Story (Henry Regnery; $3), by John C. Caldwell, a China missionary's son and a veteran of the U.S. foreign service in the Far East. His conclusion: the U.S. State Department, possessed by "some of the same naive notions that . . . lost us China," messed up the chance to promote democracy in Korea...