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...defect in U.N. negotiating technique had become quite plain. This was a tendency to make some demands for bargaining purposes, or to soothe the feelings of South Korea's intransigent Syngman Rhee, without making a sufficiently clear distinction between these demands and those basic questions of principle on which the U.N. was determined not to surrender...
Bargaining Points. For example, to placate Rhee (who kept insisting that he would accept no cease-fire that left enemy soldiers on Korean soil), the U.N. had demanded that 34,000 North Korean prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation be turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...proud but nervous Air Force grounded the pair, with the impressive total of 30 MIGs between them. They were decorated in Seoul by President Rhee, then by the Air Force in Tokyo, then shipped home by four-engine air transport. Both aces, still spoiling for battle and for bigger records, said that they would ask for another tour of Sabre duty in Korea, rather than take desk jobs...
...Seoul, the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...
...embassy at Seoul, Counsellor Edwin Lightner Jr. led a State Department clique that disliked and derogated Korea's President Syngman Rhee. Last June, Lightner & Co. vainly tried to prevent Rhee's reelection, accusing the 77-year-old President of autocratic methods. Last week, in line with a policy of support for Rhee, Secretary John Foster Dulles ordered Lightner back home for reassignment...