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...Congress in joint session stood up and cheered when Syngman Rhee, 79, made his way through the crowded House last week. For Rhee, a longtime back-street resident of Washington, it was a triumphal return. But the flinty, wrinkled President of Korea took no time to savor his personal triumphs; he had a somber message for the Congress and for the free world...
...Rhee began his speech on a note of gratitude. "You saved a helpless country from destruction," he said, "and in that moment the torch of true collective security burned brightly as it never had before. The aid you have given us . . . is an unpayable debt of gratitude." Then Rhee turned to more controversial matters...
...blunt Syngman Rhee, there was only one answer. "The way to survival . . . is not the way of wishfully hoping for peace where there is no peace; not by trusting that somehow the Soviet government may be persuaded to abandon its monstrous effort to conquer the world . . . but by swinging the world balance of power so strongly against the Communists that, even when they possess the weapons of annihilation, they will not dare use them...
Korean Answer. Again Syngman Rhee had a Korean answer: a serious military effort, never made during the Korean war, to defeat and overthrow Chinese Communism. Twenty divisions of R.O.K. troops, he reminded the Congress, are ready in Korea; 20 more could be mustered, with military aid from the U.S., and another 630,000 troops, according to Rhee, are available in Formosa. From the U.S., only naval and air units, said Syngman Rhee, would be needed...
...President announced that President Syngman Rhee would arrive in Washington on July 26 to talk about the failure of the Geneva Conference to unify Korea, gave the newsmen a little lecture about the importance of his omnibus tax-reform bill, and threw the conference open to questions. As the reporters tried to draw him out on what was going on in Paris, he parried the questions in general terms...