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...well with the South Korean government. Syngman Rhee and his National Society Party are rapidly losing whatever public support they once had. The resignation of government leaders, including the vice president, during the last month may mean a complete change of leadership and policy for the Korean people...
...difficult to learn what is going on in Pusan, the South Korean capital. Censorship imposed by Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
...jeep, looking from the rear like three G.l.s out to scrounge chickens. Then Ridgway and Van Fleet transferred to light liaison planes, in four hours covered most of the Korean front, talked to eight division and corps commanders. Back in Taegu, they had a quick chat with President Syngman Rhee. Then Ridgway flew off to Tokyo and Van Fleet went back to his office. A backbreaking round of staff conferences, briefings, paper work and interviews with VIPs and correspondents awaited...
...after on-the-spot courts-martial, R.O.K. soldiers executed 187 alleged Communist collaborators at Shinwon, a village 40 miles southwest of Taegu. The legalized massacre was hushed up for a month, then a National Assembly committee investigated. Last week, President Syngman Rhee published the committee's report, took appropriate action. He fired his Minister of Defense, Sihn Sung Mo, Home Affairs, Chough Byong Ok, and Justice, Kim Jeum Yin, for their "responsibility" in the affair...
Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...