Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This applause did not mean that many Congressmen or other influential Americans agreed with Rhee's specific proposals. The speech was widely regarded as "provocative" and "ill-timed," and the New York Times wrung its hands so hard over it that its editorial knuckles almost cracked...
...Rhee's speech did not persuade, it at least impressed. Its impact came from the realistic logic of the essential world situation, stripped of diversionary details. There are weighty objections to Rhee's plan, but its general argument is difficult to dispute: there will be no better time than the present to take the offensive against Communism, and no better place than Asia. Those who did not like the specifics of Rhee's proposal were faced by this speech with the requirement of finding other specifics that fitted the hard logic of his general theme...
...sultry afternoon last week, the revolving doors whirled and a brisk little Asian stepped into the lobby of the Washington Star building. He strode over to the marble classified-ad counter and stuck out his hand. "I am President Rhee of the Republic of Korea," he said. The flabbergasted clerk took his hand and murmured, "I'm glad to meet you," just as John Simmons, the equally flabbergasted State Department protocol officer, caught up with Syngman Rhee and whisked him off to the offices of the Star's Editor Ben McKelway for a chat...
...short while later President Rhee appeared on the doorstep of a brick mansion on upper 16th Street-now firmly chaperoned by Simmons. To the housekeeper who answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next...
Jitters & Blunt Greetings. Such unorthodox behavior at the beginning of President Rhee's 14-day state visit to the U.S. was enough to keep the State Department in constant jitters, and to emphasize the fact that Syngman Rhee is no ordinary chief of state. If the brusque old man decided he wanted to visit an old neighbor, or to thank a newspaper for its support-or to scold the U.S. for faintheartedness-he did just that. When he received the key to the city, Rhee grinned broadly. "I will drive as fast as I want to," he said...