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...house. When dawn came, the coup was complete. Seoul seemed almost normal but for the heavy guards at every intersection and the orders blaring over the radio from the headquarters of peppery little Lieut. General Chang Do Yung, 38, chief of staff of the 600,000-man ROK army, who now declared himself "chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee." Proclaiming martial law, General Chang ordered the Cabinet arrested, halted all civil air flights, banned political parties, forbade meetings and decreed censorship for the newspapers...
...soon as our mission has been completed, and return to our original duties." General Chang, a North Korean who was drafted into the Japanese army and graduated from a Japanese military academy, is well known and popular among U.S. officers, who helped him rise to the top in the ROK army by arranging to send him to the U.S. for a year's study at the Command and General Staff College at Fort
...make matters worse, Premier Chang forced some prominent ROK officers into early retirement. But, lacking the crafty sophistication of Syngman Rhee, who used to reshuffle his officer corps with drastic regularity to make plots difficult, Chang left too many of his military opponents in their old jobs. When Plotter General Pak set his military revolt in motion last week, only 3,600 soldiers were needed to bring the government down and send Premier Chang into hiding...
...monthly or less, and would like to see some vacancies at the top-where, as some of them candidly admit, the opportunities for graft are better. Posturing heroically on street corners, they charge the generals with everything from taking bribes from draft evaders to delivering the vote of entire ROK army divisions to the Rhee ticket in last March's fraudulent elections. Counters U.S. General Carter B. Magruder, who as U.N. commander is responsible for South Korea's defenses against the Communist North: "No military force can tolerate having senior officers forced out of service by junior officers...
...Word to the Cops. By afternoon, Rhee called in Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Song Yo Chan and placed Seoul under martial law. Rumbling into town with old Sherman tanks, the 15th ROK Infantry Division took over from the hated police. Genial, able General Song was firm, but his sympathies clearly lay with the students. "Call on me any time," he told a student delegation. As for the police, he warned bluntly: "Policemen found beating, torturing or abusing anyone will be dealt with under martial...