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...second ultimatum went to the NNSC: get out by Aug. 14, or be put out bodily. "The U.S. seems to be unable to settle this question for us," said Rhee. "The government has no other course but to deal with the Communists directly...
...more than 400 aircraft, including 150 MIG jets. Last year, the Swiss and Swedes reported that truce inspection in North Korea was "completely illusory." The U.S. called for its immediate abolition on the grounds that "obstructionist tactics on the Communist side have made [its work] impossible." Washington even promised Rhee that the U.S. would see to it that NNSC left Korea shortly. It is still there...
...long length Syngman Rhee decided to take things into his own hands. He didn't like the idea of the U.S. sitting down peaceful-like with the Chinese Reds at Geneva. Rhee denounced the Poles and Czechs on the NNSC as "Communist spies." His newspapers launched a systematic propaganda barrage designed to convince his people that another attack on South Korea was imminent. At the same time, Rhee's national police made arrangements to levy food, drink and banquet quotas on South Korean shopkeepers, for the use of the students and unemployed whom Rhee can always rely...
Hell & High Water. The U.S., which controls Rhee's supplies of gasoline and ammunition, had little fear that Rhee would order his army to march north, but it was thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a South Korean attack on the neutral commission. In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the South Koreans that the principle of "nonviolence," which the U.S. is trying to get the Red Chinese to accept, applies equally to U.S. allies. Meanwhile, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the U.S. and U.N. supreme commander in the Far East, flew to Seoul and told Rhee...
...silliest thing I ever heard," taunted Syngman Rhee, "American soldiers threatening to shoot their allies to protect Communists." Rhee assured Lemnitzer that his government had no intention of using force, but to make sure, the American gave orders to reinforce the U.S. guard at all five of the inspection points where the NNSC officers are billeted. It was a wise precaution, for within hours the rioting began...