Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West. But in the South Korean capital at Seoul, closest to the front and most concerned with the goal of a free Korea, there was no optimism: President Syngman Rhee cried that the truce terms were a betrayal of his government's hope for the land's unity and security...
...Rhee's stand, a last-ditch menace to an armistice, was grave enough to warrant Dwight Eisenhower's intervention (see col. j). For the U.S., it became the first tough problem rising from the truce deal. Others as dangerous lay ahead. The truce left the whole issue of Chinese Commu nist aggression unsettled. The Chinese Reds not only were relieved of military pressure, but they were enormously more powerful in Asia, by reason of being encamped in North Korea. Until the Red troops vacate, a unified Korea has about as much chance as a unified Germany with...
Meaning Business. When General Mark Clark, Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs came to sweet-talk him on his terrace, proud, headstrong Syngman Rhee held firm. "You came here to save us," he told one caller. "Are we saved if, after three years of war, you sign away the principles you have said you were fighting for?" The Americans tried to explain that the U.N. was fighting in Korea to stop aggression, that aggression had been stopped, that unification would have to wait for the peace conference. Unification, they said, is only a political objective...
...withdraw from any agreed "demilitarized zone," and might even launch a wildcat attack of his own. His men are on guard at all the prison camps except Camp Eight, where balking Chinese prisoners are kept; ROK guards might turn loose all North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation. Rhee's delegate to the truce talks, Major General Choi Duk Shin, boycotted one session, and Rhee commended him for "high patriotism." General Choi told correspondents: "People ask me if we can fight alone and win. I tell them you do not fight only when you know you can win. You fight...
...Rhee dispatched his defense minister on a tour of front-line ROK commanders to test their loyalty. In the cities, hundreds of posters were slapped up on walls of bombed-out buildings (sample slogans, usually in English: "Give us unification or give us death." "Young men, hold on to your arms and advance north...