Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter disillusionment I am learning that Eisenhower is a fatuous Chamberlain who has perpetrated the greatest sellout since Munich . . . He has sold out South Korea and is proceeding to kick the venerable S. Rhee in the teeth because the Korean President has the patriotism to protest...
This week the U.S. indicated that it intends to go ahead with a truce in Korea, with Syngman Rhee's assent if possible, without it if necessary...
...Peng Teh-huai. asking for resumed truce talks "in an earnest endeavor to achieve an early armistice." The U.N. Command is a military command, he said, and it does not control the sovereign South Korean government. By agreement, it is supposed to control the ROK armed forces; therefore, the Rhee government broke an agreement when ROK soldiers, acting on their government's secret instructions, aided and abetted the escape of 25,000 North Korean prisoners. But, Clark insisted, "the recovery of all these prisoners would be as impossible for us as it would be for your side to recover...
Youth in the Alleys. In subsequent breaks elsewhere, ROK tanks and trucks surrounded one camp, and the trucks carted away the escaping prisoners. At Pusan, several hundred fled from a hospital. More than 100 anti-Communist Chinese seized chances to escape. But Rhee's government, not interested in the Chinese, ordered them rounded up at once, and they were soon back behind the wire...
...would impair faith in the U.N. if we were to authorize the unifi cation of Korea by force against North Korea after [resisting] North Korea's attempt to unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going it alone. Said the President: "It was indeed a crime that [North Korea] invoked violence to unite Korea. But I urge that your country not embark upon a similar course...