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Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Vacant Seats. Korea's political problems were even more difficult. The fundamental political question was whether Syngman Rhee's government was to be tossed overboard. Certain U.N. members, who considered Syngman Rhee "reactionary" and wanted to drive him out of power, said that new elections should be held throughout Korea. Rhee's supporters argued that this would be penalizing South Korea for having been invaded. The present Republican government, they said, was the product of two U.N.-sponsored elections, the second held last May. Since 1948, the Republic had held vacant 100 seats in the National Assembly...
Edwin O. Reischauer, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages and former State Department aide on Korean affairs, declared last night that the Syngman Rhee government is a "police state" representing wealthy landowners and often addicted to brutal suppression of domestic opposition." Reischauer spoke before 150 members of the Cambridge League of Women Voters in Phillips Brooks House...
...success, particularly in dealing with the difficult situations in Formosa and Korea. The occupation, rehabilitation, and administration of Korea will be a major test, and the whole value of the Korean expedition in the eyes of Asia will depend on how well the U.N. can handle the ambitious Syngman Rhee and the equally ambitious General MacArthur. The disposition of Formosa and tension in Europe will provide other problems best solved collectively...
...Rhee's Korean name is Yi Sung-man. Transliterated into English, the Chinese character for Rhee's family name is commonly written "Yi" by Chinese and Koreans, "Ri" by Japanese. Like many Koreans, Rhee Westernized his name for convenience in dealing with Westerners...