Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down Syngman Rhee by declaring U.N. martial law, placing Rhee in "protective custody" or engineering a coup d'etat to bring to power a Korean who would cooperate with...
...Continue trying to persuade Rhee while going ahead with a truce, hoping for the best...
...first two possibilities were abhorrent and so was the third, which would involve vast military risks (e.g., a collapse of the ROK army, which has been doing most of the fighting these days). Furthermore, time was rapidly slipping by for the third: already Rhee has decided to fire the ROK army's young (33) Chief of Staff, Paik Sun Yup, who is a U.N. favorite...
Although there was nothing in Rhee's conduct to indicate that he was bluffing, the U.S. chose the easy fourth course, and hopefully assumed that Rhee would come around in the end. To Korea this week flew Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, a personal emissary from Dwight Eisenhower, with orders to talk to Rhee. Just how Robertson, a neophyte in power politics, or his companion, Assistant Secretary of State Carl McCardle, were to persuade shrewd, sly, dedicated old Syngman Rhee to abandon his lifelong dream was not explained. One weapon at hand: a threat to cut off economic...
Caught between the Communists and Rhee the U.N. Command faltered in in decision. The editor of one of Rhee's tightly controlled newspapers told an American correspondent: "From now on the Korean government is going to run the war. The Americans can do nothing to stop it. They must do whatever we want them to do and they know it." It was a chilling statement. It even contained a certain amount of truth...