Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department found itself last week in the position of a quarterback who hasn't noticed that his team has possession of the ball. While opportunities for progress against world Communism seethed about them, U.S. public policy spokesmen remained on the defensive, snarled in the wrangle with Syngman Rhee and the "book-burning" controversy...
...Washington, London, Paris and East Germany to come home to Moscow for a policy conference. And in the Far East, an opportunity to press Russia's Chinese allies had been frittered away in truce negotiations that led to the dangerous and demoralizing conflict between the U.S. and Syngman Rhee-a conflict which Senator Knowland this week blamed on the failure of both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations to consult with Rhee...
...just the question of who is right, but who has most power, was at issue this week in the U.S.'s battle of wills with stubborn old Syngman Rhee. When it came down to it, Rhee had an imposing show of power. How to counter it was the subject of a conference called by Mark Clark, and attended by Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins, Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor and Far East air and naval commanders. Clark & Co. decided that Rhee could...
...than 100,000 Korean porters and others working for the U.N. Command), the dockworkers at Pusan, Inchon and other ports, and the railway workers to leave their work. In a time of active combat, with the front in need of a steady stream of supply, such a move by Rhee would be crippling. If the fighting in most sectors is at a standstill, as it now is, the move would be only a serious inconvenience...
...Rhee was not finished with Chough, however. Within a few hours, ROK M.P.s, under the command of Rhee's provost marshal, bundled Chough from the hospital to a jail cell in Seoul. Official reason: "He indiscriminately misled the public by words and deeds, resulting in a very, very difficult situation . . . Because of his disturbance of public sentiments . . . public antagonism became so serious he needed protection." Actually, in a land where Syngman Rhee controls not only the police but the press, only a tiny fraction of South Koreans knew of Chough's audacious stand...