Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeep, looking from the rear like three G.l.s out to scrounge chickens. Then Ridgway and Van Fleet transferred to light liaison planes, in four hours covered most of the Korean front, talked to eight division and corps commanders. Back in Taegu, they had a quick chat with President Syngman Rhee. Then Ridgway flew off to Tokyo and Van Fleet went back to his office. A backbreaking round of staff conferences, briefings, paper work and interviews with VIPs and correspondents awaited...
...after on-the-spot courts-martial, R.O.K. soldiers executed 187 alleged Communist collaborators at Shinwon, a village 40 miles southwest of Taegu. The legalized massacre was hushed up for a month, then a National Assembly committee investigated. Last week, President Syngman Rhee published the committee's report, took appropriate action. He fired his Minister of Defense, Sihn Sung Mo, Home Affairs, Chough Byong Ok, and Justice, Kim Jeum Yin, for their "responsibility" in the affair...
Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...
...More Bugout. When Matt Ridgway stepped off the plane in Korea, he lost no time stating his objectives. To President Syngman Rhee, worried by evacuation rumors, he said, "I aim to stay...
...Restore the Syngman Rhee government to power throughout Korea...