Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed the political situation in South Korea to flounder to a point where old (77) Syngman Rhee could make the U.S. look ridiculous by cutting off Voice of America broadcasts (see WAR IN ASIA). The real point of the Rhee scandal is that after two years of war in Korea, the U.S. has neither been able to trust Rhee or to find some other leader whom it could trust...
This week, beset on all sides, tough old Syngman Rhee proposed a deal. He said he would let the Assembly elect the next President by June 23 (as provided in the constitution) if the Assembly agreed to permit the popular election of future Presidents. On the surface, this offer looked good, but the suspicious Assembly-with eleven of its members still under Rhee's arrest-wanted to take a hard look at the fine print...
week over the Korean situation, an exasperation which most often took the form of blaming it all on the U.S. Like the run of the U.S. press, British papers took a dim view of Syngman Rhee's antics and of the Koje mess. "Rarely, if ever," said London's News Chronicle of Koje, "can American Army authorities have suffered so great a humiliation." Sedater journals, as they usually do, got in their licks by gently reminding their readers that the British, alas, need their impulsive U.S. friends. The leader of Britain's Socialists felt a like impulse...
...opinion in this country that we should complete a withdrawal from Korea," cried Bevanite M.P. Emrys Hughes, a bellicose pacifist, "because the war there [is] one of the most cruel and futile in history." Since the Americans had made a mess of the P.W. situation and the Syngman Rhee affair, some Britons implied, they probably have balled up the truce negotiations just as badly...
Foreign Office men to the mission, Minister .of State Selwyn Lloyd and the ministry's top China hand, Robert H. Scott. Alexander will talk to the generals, Lloyd to Rhee and the politicos...