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...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...
While just about everybody agrees that South Korea Assemblymen are often incompetent and sometimes corrupt. Rhee's anger also stems from the occasional spark of independence that the Assembly shows. Recently Rhee demanded constitutional amendments to give the voters the right to recall Assemblymen by petition and the President the authority to dissolve the Assembly by decree. Though members of Rhee's own Liberal Party fill 96 of the Assembly's 179* seats, the Assembly balked at such drastic pruning of its powers...
...retaliation, Rhee decided to make his constitutional changes the central issue of the May 20 general elections. Of the 96 Liberal Assemblymen up for reelection, he gave official party backing to only 42, and hand-picked most of the other 270 Liberal candidates. All Liberals, whether picked by Rhee or not, were required to sign written pledges promising to vote for the President's constitutional amendments...
With his own party's slate of candidates in good order, Rhee then set out to purge the opposition list of objectionable men. To Home Minister Paik Han Sung he sent a note listing three of the most objectionable: Assembly Chairman P. H. Shinicky, Vice Chairman Cho Bong Am, and former Home Minister Chough Pyung Ok-all members of the Democratic Nationalist Party (DNP). Minister Paik in turn set his remarkably efficient police force to "investigating" Shinicky, Cho and Chough. With election day less than a fortnight away, all three candidates seem to have been effectively eliminated from further...
...total of 50 DNP and Independent candidates also prudently withdrew their candidacy for reasons of "personal safety," and the DNP was threatening to boycott the elections entirely. Rhee, chiding DNP leaders for not yet making good their threat, intimated that nothing would please him more...