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...With Rhee's reply formally accepting the Assembly's demands, control of the government passed to the senior member of his Cabinet: unassuming, incorruptible Huh Chung, 64 (see box), who only two days earlier, had accepted Rhee's invitation to become Foreign Minister...
...finally met in emergency session, Assembly guards were under orders to admit "only students and Assemblymen." Only 105 of Korea's 231 Assemblymen dared to show up. Under the stern eyes of hundreds of youngsters, they unanimously passed a resolution calling for new elections, a new constitution and Rhee's "immediate" resignation...
...Departures. In his first 24 hours in office, Huh commanded less public attention in Korea than the final, tragic act of Rhee's fall from power. Early in the week, fearful of the mob fury that kept their Seoul home under constant siege, Lee Ki Poong and his family had taken refuge in the heavily guarded presidential compound. There, crammed into a single room with his wife and two sons, Lee sought vainly for a way of escaping the net that was closing in on him. To a close friend Lee confided: "Rhee has ordered me to resign...
...resignation, Syngman Rhee himself came to the Lees' room for a private chat with his old friend. When it was over, Lee sent away all but one of his bodyguards. Lee Kang Suk told the guard: "Be around when I do what has to be done, and in case of need, finish me." At 5:40 the next morning, the guard heard shots from Lee's room. When police broke in, they found Lee, his wife and younger son sitting hand in hand on a couch, their heads thrown back by the shock of death. Lying across their...
...Private Citizen. That afternoon Syngman Rhee left the presidential palace for Pear Blossom House, his private residence in Seoul. As his bulletproof Cadillac moved along the two-mile route-at first he had insisted that he wanted to walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down...