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...Christian Herter. Thirty minutes later he emerged glumly. Within the hour. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White told reporters that Herter had expressed the U.S.'s "profound and growing concern" over 1) the highhanded suppression of political opposition by South Korea's 85-year-old President Syngman Rhee, 2) brutal Korean police action against student protest marchers, and 3) other "repressive measures unsuited to a free democracy." In Seoul, Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy made the U.S. point of view unmistakable to President Rhee in a 45-minute interview...
There were special reasons for the public rebuke to South Korea: the U.S. had led a three-year war (1950-53) to preserve South Korea from Communist invasion, had financed and advised Rhee's government after the armistice, and was bound to share the blame in Asia for his increasing transgressions against democratic processes. Whether State planned it that way or not, the public protest echoed far beyond Korea as a signal that the U.S. intends to speak up to errant friends as well as enemies when their conduct-even though internal-offends the basic principles for which...
Gunfire rattled again last week through remote cities with names once painfully familiar to U.S. G.I.s - Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu, Taejon, Seoul. Once again, as he had in 1950, South Korea's stubborn, prideful President Syngman Rhee, 85, stood with his back to the wall. But this time Rhee's opponents were not Commu nist invaders. They were South Korea's own eager, patriotic youngsters...
Time to Apologize. Trading on the vast prestige that his 35-year fight for Korean freedom gave him with Korea's masses, autocratic Syngman Rhee, 85, has long ridden roughshod over anyone who dared oppose him politically. But in last month's election, his party's reliance on ballot stuffing and terrorism (TIME, March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged...
Outraged by the election and the bloodshed it produced in Masan. more and more influential Koreans have found the courage to speak out against Rhee. After investigating the election-day riot in Masan, the Korea Bar Association reported: "Police deliberately sought to fabricate evidence of a Communist conspiracy by beating up arrested persons, including wounded ones, and telling them that unless they admitted to participating in a Communist plot, they would be tied in bags and thrown into the sea." Last week, despite a "national security" law which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail for anyone...