Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Clark did not guarantee that he could control Syngman Rhee. He promised only: "Where necessary, the United Nations Command will, to the limits of its ability, establish military safeguards to insure that the armistice terms are observed...
...make old Syngman Rhee see reason if possible, Washington had dispatched a task force to Korea headed by greying, courtly Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson. The latter bore a friendly but forceful letter to Rhee from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Excerpts...
Only one prominent South Korean dared to challenge Syngman Rhee's position: "It is absolute futility to attempt to drive to the Yalu," Chough Pyung Ok told a group of Korean and U.S. newsmen. "The go-it-alone policy of President Rhee will bring disastrous results...
...question was whether rhetoric, or indeed any kind of diplomatic persuasion. could get anywhere with a man who has shown that he will go to just about any lengths to get what he wants. After four conferences with Rhee. Walter Robertson had made no progress whatsoever, despite optimistic statements put out by Rhee's forces. A U.S. official said privately: "Rhee has thrown up a great smoke screen of words, often accompanied by a studied show of amicability. But his position has not altered in the slightest...
Chough Pyung Ok is a balding, tough-fibered economist (Ph.D. Columbia University ) who heads the only permitted opposition party in South Korea. As Rhee's national police chief (1946-48) and Home Minister (1950-51), Chough has done his own part in silencing dissident voices. Knowing what to expect now, he slipped out of his house to the home of a friend. While he was away, his own house was looted and the windows and furniture smashed. Then two dozen young hoodlums stormed the friend's home, demanding to see Chough. Four broke into Chough's bedroom...