Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well with the South Korean government. Syngman Rhee and his National Society Party are rapidly losing whatever public support they once had. The resignation of government leaders, including the vice president, during the last month may mean a complete change of leadership and policy for the Korean people...
...difficult to learn what is going on in Pusan, the South Korean capital. Censorship imposed by Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
...ends by a partitioning, Rhee will have to adjust the South Korean economy so that it can get along without its "better half"--North Korea. During their 40-year occupation, the Japanese made Korea into a prosperous satellite. North Korea became an industrial area, while the South was mostly agricultural. Since 1945 when an Allied military agreement established the partition, South Koreans have lacked sufficient consumer goods, water power, coal, and fertilizer...
...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...
...Rhee's critics call him "reactionary" by citing the wealthy men and old nobility who support him. Most of the Rhee faction are septuagenarians; American-educated Rhee is 76, and Lee's age was reported as 83 when he resigned. Rhee is self-assured, stubborn, and dictatorial. He has been actively heading the Korean independence movement since 1919 when he was elected President of the Korean Republic in exile. (Korea was handed over to Japan as a bribe for recognition of American interests in the Philippines...