Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manila, where Dulles announced that the U.S. will build its atomic research center for Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. In sensitive Japan he carefully went through Japanese immigration procedures, had his passport stamped, and spoke of the "relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation" between Japan...
Sportscar Enthusiasts. In Seoul, Brigadier General Carl F. Fritzsche issued a tart order to discourage the men in his command from using Army jeeps "to transport indigenous female personnel for recreational purposes...
...parade ground of the Korean Military Academy just outside Seoul, President Syngman Rhee and General (ret.) James Van Fleet climbed into a black jeep for a special review of the cadet corps. For both men it was a big day; both had worked hard for it, both had waited for it eagerly. There, on a site that lay along Van Fleet's "Golden Line" the location of what was to be 1951's last-ditch stand against the Communists -the four-year-old academy last week graduated its first class. Guns boomed, the band blared, sabers flashed...
...Time for Sergeants. In Seoul, on Korean duty since April 1954. Sergeant Samuel Gelfman rushed to clear matters with his company commander, hurriedly informed Pacific Stars & Stripes that his home-town newspaper had erred when it printed a report stating that he had just spent a weekend sunning himself at Ocean Beach...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the South Koreans that the principle of "nonviolence," which the U.S. is trying to get the Red Chinese to accept, applies equally to U.S. allies. Meanwhile, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the U.S. and U.N. supreme commander in the Far East, flew to Seoul and told Rhee to his face that "neither hell nor high water" would persuade the U.S. to renege on its solemn commitment to abide by the Korean armistice and defend the NNSC...