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Korean Choice. The revised U.S. policy would by no means satisfy pro-American leaders in Korea. They had been ready with spontaneously formed people's councils to take over their own government as soon as Japan surrendered. In Dr. Syngman Rhee, long an exile and Korea's most distinguished and provocative spokesman, they had a man qualified to head an interim regime. But in Washington last week Rhee complained that Lieut. General John R. Hodge, head of the occupation forces, had prematurely insisted on an all-embracing coalition. Liberation from the Japanese, said Rhee, had not brought liberty...
Such a regime, Rhee thought, could then go before the United Nations to have Russia forced out of northern Korea and have the country unified...
...Formula for Purging. Koreans, remembering Japan's tutelage, were disappointed when the Moscow Conference decided upon another trusteeship, under the U.S. and Russia, for five years. Rightist groups in the American zone, loosely amalgamated in the Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...
...SYNGMAN RHEE...