Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syngman Rhee...
...Leader editor, who spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, termed South Korean President, Rhee's freeing of anti-Red prisoners a "humanitarian act. I only wish he could have let them...
...presumably asked to forget that Communism was first the accomplice of Naziism and, indeed, that the collusion of these monstrous philosophies brought about that war. These systems were competitors-not opposites. Yet we are invited to extend Christian charity to the Communists and implacable hostility to Franco, Rhee or Chiang. A curiously selective charity...
...Driberg's own squeamishness about Rhee, Chiang, et al. and his robust digestion for Communist cruelty is an odd phenomenon of the times. We, in the U.S., have had many exponents of this political and moral double-vision and double-dealing, but thank God, few ever got elected to Congress . . . PETER S. WILKINSON Brooklyn...
...admitted. Many who went on the Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay...