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...Order That Man." At India's request, the U.S. warned Syngman Rhee against breaking the peace at Indian Village, as South Korea had threatened. The U.N. command pulled back South Korean marines from positions where they could have helped a breakout, and replaced them with U.S. marines...
...enlarge the war. Two months later the Communists signed the armistice. The terms left many Americans unhappy, but no one disputed the proposition that a diplomatic stalemate was preferable to a military stalemate. Dulles has been careful to keep up his relations with Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee in the face of bitter anti-Rhee sentiment among U.S. allies. Aware that the armistice terms do not allow for a resumption of hostilities if the political conference is not held, Dulles expected the Reds to stall (as they have) on preparations for this meeting. The Communists know that they...
Surely there must be something fundamentally wrong with a policy that has led to the reversal of all the hopes of 1945 and to alliances with men (Chiang, Bao Dai, Syngman Rhee, Franco) who are essentially antagonistic to traditional American and British ideas of freedom and progress...
...forces in the Far East, went down to the airport to greet his successor, General John E. Hull, and gave him an enthusiastic welcome: "Boy, am I glad to see you!" Next day, the generals set off on a two-day inspection tour of South Korea, where President Syngman Rhee presented Clark with the Taeguk Order, South Korea's highest military award, for "eminently meritorious conduct" in the Korean war. Before flying home to the U.S., Clark was asked about rumors that he might become a candidate for mayor of San Francisco in 1955. Said he: "I have...
...joined the guerrillas in 1949, a year after most of them had deserted Syngman Rhee's army. He plodded up the mountains, muttered the proper passwords and quietly announced that the North Korean government had sent him to take charge. Lee's tablets of authority were a Russian dictionary, a Russian-language history of the Communist Party, and a Korean history of Bolshevism. His books never left his side; his orders were never questioned...