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...Tyler Wood of the Foreign Operations Administration. As Wood well knew, Bechtel was there to see how Korea's orphanages and hospitals were making out. But Ty Wood had another project that he considered just as important. For months, he had been unsuccessfully trying to persuade President Syngman Rhee to approve FOA plans for three coal-burning power plants for Korea. Would Bechtel please try his hand? Bechtel agreed to see what he could...
...liver ailment; in Washington. A onetime newspaperman, Shafer learned his law from correspondence school, became known in the House for bluntly spoken opinion. He demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped his bounds in seizing the steel mills...
...ancient enmities and current dislikes. Before Asia's non-Communist powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected...
...broadened (it is always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with Chiang Kaishek, with Ramon Magsaysay, with Mohammed...
...program (with U.S. help) to move and resettle 700,000 evacuees, including 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the Red China border. He had not only to resist the enemy but to inspire his own people. "If only Viet Nam had a Magsaysay," said one U.S. observer. "Or even a Rhee...