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South from Taejon last week fled a group of disreputable-looking Koreans in castoff clothes, armed with pocket pistols and .25s in shoulder holsters. They were cabinet members of the Republic of Korea on their way to join President Syngman Rhee in his hideout "White House" somewhere in Korea's far south. Taejon, South Korea's emergency capital since the fall of Seoul on June 28, was no longer a safe location for the cabinet, military men had decided...
South Korea's leaders, harassed and driven from pillar to post, were still not talking or acting like representatives of a beaten people. Rhee sees the war as a step in reuniting Korea-under Rhee. Said the benign, white-haired President to a TIME correspondent last week: "The Kremlin leaders destroyed the 38th parallel by invasion. Now it is gone. There is no reason now why we should observe the 38th parallel and no reason why the U.S. and the U.N. should observe it ... The cold war and all that is a waste of time. Finally force...
...incidents" came after a flow of recent reports that Bulgaria is building up troop concentrations on its Yugoslav border. At week's end, the Moscow radio accused Tito of "playing Syngman Rhee's role." Whether and when Moscow would try to inflict Syngman Rhee's fate on Tito was the Kremlin's secret...
...Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, has been working for Korean freedom ever since 1894. His single-minded struggle has led the dapper, 75-year-old Rhee into conflict with Korean kings, Japanese tyrants and Soviet agents. Years of imprisonment (1897-1904) in an unheated jail left him with the habit of blowing on his fingers when he is excited. Thirty-three years of exile (1912 to 1945), during which he vainly tried to interest the great powers in Korean independence, have long since given him the nagging tone of a neglected conscience...
...educated (George Washington University, Harvard and Princeton), Rhee was particularly bitter over U.S. indifference to Korea before World War II, and outraged by U.S. acceptance of the postwar partition of his country. Last week Rhee wrote to the U.N. Security Council: "Almost all the civilized world has rallied to support the Republic of Korea, knowing if the Communists could conquer here, there was no place where they would not try to conquer...