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...materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
Candidates of his National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence will fill at least 54 of the 200 seats in the National Assembly. But some 60 more Rhee followers were elected on "no party" tickets, enough to give him a working majority in the Assembly. The rest of the Assembly will be divided among other right-wing and splinter parties, only three seats going to left-wing (nonCommunist) candidates...
Although balding, slow-spoken, obstinate Dr. Rhee has been branded a "reactionary" by Korean Communists and a "rightist" by some U.S. journalists, his program would be too radical for most U.S. citizens. He has proposed: 1) nationalization of heavy industry, mines, forests, utilities, banks and transportation; 2) redistribution among small farmers of large estates and confiscated Japanese lands; 3) a planned economy; 4) a soak-the-rich tax program with total exemptions for poorer classes...
Nonetheless, South Koreans went to the polls this week. U.S. occupation authorities encouraged a big turnout by dropping don't-forget-to-vote leaflets from planes. Most were expected to cast their votes for the National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence of Dr. Syngman Rhee. His party stood for a unified Korea-but not for unification a la Pyongyang...
Whatever their politics, a majority of Koreans are dead set against a continuing sin tak. Most outspoken foes are old, Princetonian (Ph.D. 1910) Syngman Rhee and his big rightist coalition. Said Rhee last week: "More good can come to Korea if this present conference breaks than if it comes to an agreement. If I were General Hodge . . . I would not waste time talking with the Russians...