Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlarge the war. Two months later the Communists signed the armistice. The terms left many Americans unhappy, but no one disputed the proposition that a diplomatic stalemate was preferable to a military stalemate. Dulles has been careful to keep up his relations with Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee in the face of bitter anti-Rhee sentiment among U.S. allies. Aware that the armistice terms do not allow for a resumption of hostilities if the political conference is not held, Dulles expected the Reds to stall (as they have) on preparations for this meeting. The Communists know that they...
Surely there must be something fundamentally wrong with a policy that has led to the reversal of all the hopes of 1945 and to alliances with men (Chiang, Bao Dai, Syngman Rhee, Franco) who are essentially antagonistic to traditional American and British ideas of freedom and progress...
...Cable for Rhee. Afterward, Dean drove to his hillside home in Berkeley, which he had never seen, with his sleeping grandson on his lap. Next morning, the general ate breakfast in his patio and received a procession of reporters and relatives. Occasionally a feminine voice-his wife's or daughter's-called from the window to ask whether he wanted bacon or sausage with his eggs, or what he wanted to do with his laundry. His two grandchildren crawled in his lap, and he tried to teach young Dean Williams to call him "harabaji," which is Korean...
Later, there was a family party at his mother's and a big welcome from the citizens of Berkeley. At week's end, Dean got off a cable to Syngman Rhee, asking clemency for the two South Koreans under indictment for betraying him to the Communists, and began to answer a three-foot stack of mail-most of it from parents of soldiers still listed as missing in action. For the hero of Taejon, it was the end of a long and harrowing journey...
...joined the guerrillas in 1949, a year after most of them had deserted Syngman Rhee's army. He plodded up the mountains, muttered the proper passwords and quietly announced that the North Korean government had sent him to take charge. Lee's tablets of authority were a Russian dictionary, a Russian-language history of the Communist Party, and a Korean history of Bolshevism. His books never left his side; his orders were never questioned...