Word: rhees
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...first two possibilities were abhorrent and so was the third, which would involve vast military risks (e.g., a collapse of the ROK army, which has been doing most of the fighting these days). Furthermore, time was rapidly slipping by for the third: already Rhee has decided to fire the ROK army's young (33) Chief of Staff, Paik Sun Yup, who is a U.N. favorite...
Although there was nothing in Rhee's conduct to indicate that he was bluffing, the U.S. chose the easy fourth course, and hopefully assumed that Rhee would come around in the end. To Korea this week flew Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, a personal emissary from Dwight Eisenhower, with orders to talk to Rhee. Just how Robertson, a neophyte in power politics, or his companion, Assistant Secretary of State Carl McCardle, were to persuade shrewd, sly, dedicated old Syngman Rhee to abandon his lifelong dream was not explained. One weapon at hand: a threat to cut off economic...
Caught between the Communists and Rhee the U.N. Command faltered in in decision. The editor of one of Rhee's tightly controlled newspapers told an American correspondent: "From now on the Korean government is going to run the war. The Americans can do nothing to stop it. They must do whatever we want them to do and they know it." It was a chilling statement. It even contained a certain amount of truth...
Youth in the Alleys. In subsequent breaks elsewhere, ROK tanks and trucks surrounded one camp, and the trucks carted away the escaping prisoners. At Pusan, several hundred fled from a hospital. More than 100 anti-Communist Chinese seized chances to escape. But Rhee's government, not interested in the Chinese, ordered them rounded up at once, and they were soon back behind the wire...
...would impair faith in the U.N. if we were to authorize the unifi cation of Korea by force against North Korea after [resisting] North Korea's attempt to unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going it alone. Said the President: "It was indeed a crime that [North Korea] invoked violence to unite Korea. But I urge that your country not embark upon a similar course...