Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Vacant Seats. Korea's political problems were even more difficult. The fundamental political question was whether Syngman Rhee's government was to be tossed overboard. Certain U.N. members, who considered Syngman Rhee "reactionary" and wanted to drive him out of power, said that new elections should be held throughout Korea. Rhee's supporters argued that this would be penalizing South Korea for having been invaded. The present Republican government, they said, was the product of two U.N.-sponsored elections, the second held last May. Since 1948, the Republic had held vacant 100 seats in the National Assembly...
Occupied Areas. Rhee and other Republican officials reacted angrily. Said Rhee: "The plan is impossible for the Korean people to accept." Last week, ignoring the U.N. resolution, Rhee sent to the occupied areas more than 100, Republican administrators, including governors for the five North Korean provinces...
...Seoul, newsmen asked Rhee whether General MacArthur had tacitly agreed to the Republic's attempt to take power in North Korea. Said Rhee, with the aplomb of a veteran political poker player: "If he does not, he will let us know...