Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blunt Syngman Rhee, there was only one answer. "The way to survival . . . is not the way of wishfully hoping for peace where there is no peace; not by trusting that somehow the Soviet government may be persuaded to abandon its monstrous effort to conquer the world . . . but by swinging the world balance of power so strongly against the Communists that, even when they possess the weapons of annihilation, they will not dare use them...
Korean Answer. Again Syngman Rhee had a Korean answer: a serious military effort, never made during the Korean war, to defeat and overthrow Chinese Communism. Twenty divisions of R.O.K. troops, he reminded the Congress, are ready in Korea; 20 more could be mustered, with military aid from the U.S., and another 630,000 troops, according to Rhee, are available in Formosa. From the U.S., only naval and air units, said Syngman Rhee, would be needed...
Communist China, a "monster with feet of clay," would be an easy target in Rhee's military estimate. "It is hated by the masses. Although the Reds have murdered 15 million of their opponents, thousands of Free Chinese guerrillas are still fighting in the interior of China . . . Red China's army numbers 2,500,000, but its loyalty is not reliable, as was proved when 14,369 members of the Communist Chinese army captured in Korea chose to go to Formosa, and only 220 chose to return to Red China. The return of the Chinese main land would...
American Objections. A silent Congress listened to Syngman Rhee's proposals. But when he stepped down from the speaker's rostrum and made his way from the chamber, a prolonged ovation echoed after...
...would the Russians enter such a war to save their Chinese allies? "Perhaps," said Syngman Rhee. "But that would be excellent for the free world, since it would justify the destruction of the Soviet centers of production by the American Air Force before the Soviet hydrogen bombs had been produced in quantity. I am aware that this is a hard doctrine. But the Communists have made this a hard world, a horrible world, in which to be soft is to become a slave...