Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige and Syngman Rhee's boasts of marching to the Yalu, the east front setback was a severe blow. Just how seriously it affects U.N. defenses for an armistice is another matter, obscured in military censorship...
...closer an armistice came, the more indignant the South Korean government became. Bitter old Syngman Rhee sat in his presidential mansion in Seoul, abrupt to General Mark Clark, who called on him, angry at President Eisenhower, who wrote him. Twice during the week, 78-year-old President Rhee said that he would go along with the U.S., then reversed himself. "We cannot accept any armistice so long as the Chinese remain in Korea-make no mistake about that," he said. "But if we feel forced to take unilateral action, we will talk it over, as friend to friend...
...Rhee's most articulate spokesman in Seoul was Foreign Minister and Acting Premier Pyun Yung Tai, who sat last week in a bullet-pocked hospital in Seoul. Said Pyun: "The leaders of the free world are still suffering from the ideological hangover of the Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid...
...atmosphere between allies turned ugly. Rhee proclaimed a "semi-extraordinary emergency" throughout South Korea; spokesmen talked of "spontaneous demonstrations" about to begin. U.N. commanders, exasperated yet sympathetic, tried to guess how much Rhee might be bluffing and could not be sure. They also wondered whether Rhee would be able to control and limit anything he began in so explosive a moment. They told each other that after all, had it not been for the U.N., Rhee would have been pushed into the sea. They talked over the pressures they might bring to bear. The U.N. controls his supplies, gasoline, ammunition...
...fogbound eastern mountains last week, Syngman Rhee's South Korean troops fought bitterly for ground they would only have to give up under an armistice. Things were not that way along U.S. sectors of the line. U.S. soldiers bathed in the streams within view and rifle-shot of the enemy, and heard Chinese loudspeakers warn them: "Keep your heads down; the war is almost over...