Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of right took on new and more dangerous proportions when Syngman Rhee's South Korean government voiced its violent opposition to the new United Nations truce plan (see WAR IN ASIA). Furious because the current plan does not point toward a unified Korea, the South Korean leaders threatened to pull their troops out of the U.N. and fight on alone...
...week long, stubborn Syngman Rhee, veteran fighter for a free Korea, sat on his terrace overlooking Seoul and waged a war of nerves. His object was unmistakable: to block the armistice as a ruinous compromise...
Specifically, South Korea's aging (78) President was objecting to the new U.N. truce plan, submitted to the Communists in a secret session last week. But his real complaint was as old as the truce talks themselves. Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining...
Bargaining Points. For example, to placate Rhee (who kept insisting that he would accept no cease-fire that left enemy soldiers on Korean soil), the U.N. had demanded that 34,000 North Korean prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation be turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...proud but nervous Air Force grounded the pair, with the impressive total of 30 MIGs between them. They were decorated in Seoul by President Rhee, then by the Air Force in Tokyo, then shipped home by four-engine air transport. Both aces, still spoiling for battle and for bigger records, said that they would ask for another tour of Sabre duty in Korea, rather than take desk jobs...