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After three months as a refugee in his own country, Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, had come home to Seoul. He found his official residence littered with the midden of the routed Communist army, including back copies of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. When the litter had been cleared away, a close inspection of the presidential mansion showed that the Russian civilians billeted there during the Communist occupation had left behind all of Rhee's most valuable and showy possessions. Mrs. Rhee had not fared so well; the Russians, headed north into the winter, had made...
...Capitol, a fire-blackened, bullet-pocked shell of masonry, its rooms and offices still strewn with the enemy's litter-Russian-made helmets and burp guns, half-consumed bottles of beer and wine. There MacArthur met his friend and ally, South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who had winged up from Pusan in the general's old plane Bataan...
...Supreme Commander called on all to recite with him the Lord's Prayer. After the "Amen," he turned to Syngman Rhee: "Mr. President, my officers and I will now resume our military duties and leave you and your government to the discharge of civil responsibility...
...Rhee clasped MacArthur's hand. "We admire you," he exclaimed. "We love you as the savior of our race." Then, in a formal address, Rhee gave Korea's thanks...
...would bring Communist China, possibly even Russia, into the war; the prospect that by following North Korean aggressors across the parallel the U.N. forces might themselves become guilty of aggression. Nehru revealed another, less far-fetched motive when he snapped, "I am no great admirer of [South Korean] President Rhee anyhow...