Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell & High Water. The U.S., which controls Rhee's supplies of gasoline and ammunition, had little fear that Rhee would order his army to march north, but it was thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a South Korean attack on the neutral commission. In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the South Koreans that the principle of "nonviolence," which the U.S. is trying to get the Red Chinese to accept, applies equally to U.S. allies. Meanwhile, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the U.S. and U.N. supreme commander in the Far East, flew to Seoul and told Rhee...
...silliest thing I ever heard," taunted Syngman Rhee, "American soldiers threatening to shoot their allies to protect Communists." Rhee assured Lemnitzer that his government had no intention of using force, but to make sure, the American gave orders to reinforce the U.S. guard at all five of the inspection points where the NNSC officers are billeted. It was a wise precaution, for within hours the rioting began...
Commies, Go Home. In Pusan, a mob of Koreans, urged on by Rhee's national policemen, rushed the NNSC compound, shouting. "Poles and Czechs, go home!" They pushed down the fence and stoned the U.S. guards; in one of their trucks, guards found six machine guns. The worst fighting broke out at Wolmi Island, the wooded, humpbacked pile where the U.S. marines staged their amphibious assault on Inchon in 1950. Screaming Koreans tried to rush the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, and others stormed ashore from junks. One Korean got shot and two were wounded while...
...Last-Minute Backdown. For a week the rock-throwing, torch-waving and teargassing went on, but the U.S. Army stood firm and did not lose its head. Finally, Syngman Rhee backed down and proclaimed that his government was opposed to the "civilian violence." Rhee demanded that the U.S. give a guarantee that the NNSC would soon be "peacefully evicted." An officer at the Wolmi barricade summed up the Army's reaction: "Even if I could hand over the Czechs and Poles to these people, I wouldn't do it. It's a matter of principle. We told...
...week's end 22 Americans and perhaps 80 Koreans had been more or less seriously injured to maintain the principle. Stubborn old Syngman Rhee was beaten, and knew it. Two hours before it expired, Rhee lifted the midnight deadline for NNSC officers to get out of Korea...