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...prestige and Syngman Rhee's boasts of marching to the Yalu, the east front setback was a severe blow. Just how seriously it affects U.N. defenses for an armistice is another matter, obscured in military censorship...
...desperately attempting to block an armistice, Syngman Rhee had just about used up all the arguments he knew. Last week South Korea's stubborn old man used an uglier and more dangerous tool...
Nevertheless, Rhee seemed to realize that the anti-Americanism might get out of hand. At week's end he called off the mob. One directive, sent out by his Education Ministry, revealed how closely the government controlled the riots. It read: ". . . Students will not demonstrate against the cease-fire until and unless there are further instructions from the ministry." The violence ceased, but the government hinted it might start again. Meanwhile, the tension and suspicion remained...
...atmosphere between allies turned ugly. Rhee proclaimed a "semi-extraordinary emergency" throughout South Korea; spokesmen talked of "spontaneous demonstrations" about to begin. U.N. commanders, exasperated yet sympathetic, tried to guess how much Rhee might be bluffing and could not be sure. They also wondered whether Rhee would be able to control and limit anything he began in so explosive a moment. They told each other that after all, had it not been for the U.N., Rhee would have been pushed into the sea. They talked over the pressures they might bring to bear. The U.N. controls his supplies, gasoline, ammunition...
...fogbound eastern mountains last week, Syngman Rhee's South Korean troops fought bitterly for ground they would only have to give up under an armistice. Things were not that way along U.S. sectors of the line. U.S. soldiers bathed in the streams within view and rifle-shot of the enemy, and heard Chinese loudspeakers warn them: "Keep your heads down; the war is almost over...