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...stable with a stench that "an honest man could not breathe"; the Security Council was "a spittoon, even worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after...
Under unforgiving old Syngman Rhee, South Korea for 15 years treated Japan as almost a worse enemy than the Communist regime in North Korea. Unable to forget 35 years of Japanese colonial rule Rhee stubbornly refused to exchange ambassadors with Tokyo, drew an arbitrary "Rhee line" upwards of 60 miles out at sea over which Japanese fishermen crossed at their peril...
Ever since 1956 when he outraged flinty old Syngman Rhee by getting himself elected Rhee's Vice President, Dr. John M. Chang, 61, has dreamed of some day becoming No. 1 man in South Korea. With Rhee's downfall last April the way was clear, and fortnight ago Seoul's National Assembly by a vote of 117-107 elected Chang to the premiership, the real seat of power under South Korea's new constitution. But last week intelligent, soft-spoken John Chang found his dream turning into a nightmare...
...largest outside Red China. He is also committed to improving South Korea's troubled relations with Japan. But he has little chance of carrying his program through, unless South Korea can shake off the addiction to anarchy displayed by politicians and ordinary citizens alike since the revolt against Rhee. Pondering South Korea's paralysis, Seoul's Hankook Ilbo last week mused: "We cannot but worry about the future of the parliamentary system in this country...
...Seoul last week, South Korea's newly elected National Assembly at last chose a chief of state to replace deposed President Syngman Rhee. By a vote of 208 (out of 259) the Assembly named as President 62-year-old Posun Yun,* a British-educated (Edinburgh University) Presbyterian who, as onetime mayor of-Seoul, acquired something of a Herculean reputation by cleaning up the city's streets...