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...wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West. But in the South Korean capital at Seoul, closest to the front and most concerned with the goal of a free Korea, there was no optimism: President Syngman Rhee cried that the truce terms were a betrayal of his government's hope for the land's unity and security...
...Rhee's stand, a last-ditch menace to an armistice, was grave enough to warrant Dwight Eisenhower's intervention (see col. j). For the U.S., it became the first tough problem rising from the truce deal. Others as dangerous lay ahead. The truce left the whole issue of Chinese Commu nist aggression unsettled. The Chinese Reds not only were relieved of military pressure, but they were enormously more powerful in Asia, by reason of being encamped in North Korea. Until the Red troops vacate, a unified Korea has about as much chance as a unified Germany with...
...Dwight Eisenhower's desk, a few days before the decisive break at Panmunjom, came a powerful letter from Korea's President Syngman Rhee. The doughty old patriot objected strenuously to the latest U.S. truce plan, on which his government had not been consulted (see INTERNATIONAL). His country's hope of unity and its future safety, he warned, were imperiled; rather than accept the armistice, he vowed to lead his people in a lone fight against the Communists and in defiance...
...Rhee's stand, discounted at first, soon threatened to become the major obstacle to an armistice. Eisenhower summoned Secretary Dulles, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins and Assistant Defense Secretary Frank C. Nash into an emergency session at the White House. A reply to Rhee was worked out. On Sunday, as General Mark Clark flew with Eisenhower's letter from Tokyo to Seoul, the White House released the text...
...Rhee dispatched his defense minister on a tour of front-line ROK commanders to test their loyalty. In the cities, hundreds of posters were slapped up on walls of bombed-out buildings (sample slogans, usually in English: "Give us unification or give us death." "Young men, hold on to your arms and advance north...