Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean students must greet you for your fair articles about our revolution. But I hope you understand that we only hate Rhee's government. Our Korean people respect Rhee as our George Washington...
...finally went too far. and the Rhee government had to "retire" him. He had begun arresting as "Communist instigators" any anti-Rhee Assemblymen observed calling at the U.S. embassy...
Last week, with Rhee fallen from power and most of the hated police hiding indoors, 70 relatives of the Shinwon victims plucked up their nerve, made a pilgrimage to the mass grave. Then they set to work clearing away underbrush and Setting up gravestones. Suddenly they were swept by an impulse for revenge. Unable to take reprisals against the absent Colonel Kim, they marched to the house of Park Yung Bo, who had been mayor in Colonel Kim's time, and as the owner of a rice-winery was still the town's richest man. Dragging Park...
Crisis in Seoul. When news of the Shinwon lynching reached Seoul, Rhee's Liberals threatened to withdraw from the Assembly unless the government immediately put a halt to such "reprisals." Apprehension increased when a posse of eight policemen and 18 soldiers sent to Shinwon to restore order were beaten back by still enraged villagers...
...Park. Scores of others stood by chanting "We too, we too; either punish all or none." The caretaker Huh Chung government promised another "investigation." But the guess was that the lynching at Shinwon would be sadly written off as an unhappy aftermath of the long wrongs of the Syngman Rhee regime...