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Clear Commitment. The latter was one of the most momentous communications ever penned by a U.S. President. It was a velvet-gloved rejection of Rhee's threat to keep fighting. It was also a catalog of benefits which would accrue to Rhee if he agreed to armistice. But over all, it was a clear U.S. commitment, Congress willing, to stand by humanitarian and political principles in Korea...
Political Union. Eisenhower noted that the ROK government, in alliance with the U.N., had not only denied the Communists "the fruits of aggression," but was actually in possession of more territory than it held when the war began. He assured Rhee: "The unification of Korea is an end to which the U.S. is committed." Then, in words that took in other Koreas, i.e., divided Germany and Austria, he added: "We remain determined to play our part in achieving the political union of all countries so divided . . ." But the U.S. would not "employ war as an instrument to accomplish the worldwide...
...return for Rhee's acceptance of the armistice, Eisenhower promised...
...closer an armistice came, the more indignant the South Korean government became. Bitter old Syngman Rhee sat in his presidential mansion in Seoul, abrupt to General Mark Clark, who called on him, angry at President Eisenhower, who wrote him. Twice during the week, 78-year-old President Rhee said that he would go along with the U.S., then reversed himself. "We cannot accept any armistice so long as the Chinese remain in Korea-make no mistake about that," he said. "But if we feel forced to take unilateral action, we will talk it over, as friend to friend...
...Rhee's most articulate spokesman in Seoul was Foreign Minister and Acting Premier Pyun Yung Tai, who sat last week in a bullet-pocked hospital in Seoul. Said Pyun: "The leaders of the free world are still suffering from the ideological hangover of the Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid...