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Through Seoul's dusty streets, Syngman Rhee hustled from meeting to meeting in his big, blue-black Lincoln. The car was almost the only civilian vehicle moving in South Korea. As the U.S. ban on petroleum supplies took effect (TIME, Nov. 15), buses halted, fishing boats lay idle, politicians bicycled to work. Rice piled up on the farms for lack of trucks, while in town 25,000 factory workers were unemployed and hungry. In Seoul's tearooms the word went round: "The old man is beaten...
...midweek stubborn old Syngman Rhee gave up, asked U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs for his terms to restart the flow of U.S. oil and dollars. Said Briggs in effect: "Do what you promised to do four months ago in Washington." Rhee meekly agreed...
...Spend at least 25% of his U.S.-aid money in Japan. This will help the Japanese economy, and end a three-year boycott of Japanese goods which Japan-Hater Rhee has never announced officially but has made nearly 100% effective...
...Syngman Rhee was a hard man to help...
Back Down. Rhee was startled: he did not think the U.S. would dare. Last week he began to back down. Even he could see that every day he held out was causing loss, trouble and discontent; the Korean employees of the U.N. forces were quite audibly grumbling. At last, Rhee's Finance Minister offered the U.S. 500 million hwan "unconditionally." When General John E. Hull, the U.S. commander in the Far East, replied firmly that he now needed 800 million, Rhee's men hastened to offer the additional amount-although they knew the U.S. would not repay...