Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor in Japan. These Koreans and their children, more than 600,000 strong, have been there ever since. Many of them want to go home, and the Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs for. In contrast, Kim II Sung...
...Commissioner, later as Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea (1956-59), he won high marks for his cool and tactful dealings with irascible, immovable old (84) President Syngman Rhee. When news of Dowling's appointment was flashed to Bonn, Adenauer promptly cabled official approval along with word that he would be "delighted" to welcome an old friend to Bonn...
...Japanese announcement brought cries of outrage from South Korea's Syngman Rhee, who argued that the repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week...
...enemy," Walter Spencer Robertson, Virginia investment banker and China economic expert, built up unusual influence in six years (1953-59) as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He advocated strong U.S. support for Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and South Korea's Syngman Rhee while restraining them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy and Matsu islands. He outargued liberal critics who urged the recognition of Red China, drew his moral from the record...
...been attested to by a liberal borrowing of its principles by the present administration. Unfortunately, the case for SEATO or the United States supported Baghdad Pact was not so clear cut at NATO; in forming a similar type of alliance which formally committed us to Chiang and Syngman Rhee, Dulles diplomacy may have been conducted with more frantic zeal than wisdom...