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...Syngman Rhee...
...recent weeks Syngman Rhee has sat in his mansion at Seoul, listening impatiently to a steady stream of U.S. diplomats, Congressmen and other official visitors telling him he must not disturb the peace, and spelling out the U.S. policy decision not to help him if he tries to go it alone. The news was. hard for Rhee to hear, harder still to accept...
...fought and dodged, sulked, pretended he did not understand, threatened to involve his country in national suicide, if necessary. Last week, to one guest fresh from the U.S., Rhee declared that he would attack North Korea even if the U.S. would not help him. His guest heard him out, then said quietly: "Mr. President, that's nonsense, and you know it." For once President Rhee had no reply...
...Leader editor, who spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, termed South Korean President, Rhee's freeing of anti-Red prisoners a "humanitarian act. I only wish he could have let them...
...admitted. Many who went on the Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay...