Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand...
That day thousands of Koreans, marshaled by brassy-voiced parade sergeants, were tramping the streets of Seoul. Many were grim-faced hooligans and toughs, trotted out frequently for "spontaneous demonstrations." Others were shuffling, disinterested older folk, householders mustered by their neighborhood ward heelers, or casual pedestrians ordered into the line of march. A long column of marchers fell in behind the high-school girls. At a big barricade in front of Eighth Army headquarters, the scratched and bleeding girls were pushed from behind, and clashed again with M.P.s and police. Water hoses dispersed...
...armistice. Eisenhower summoned Secretary Dulles, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins and Assistant Defense Secretary Frank C. Nash into an emergency session at the White House. A reply to Rhee was worked out. On Sunday, as General Mark Clark flew with Eisenhower's letter from Tokyo to Seoul, the White House released the text...
...closer an armistice came, the more indignant the South Korean government became. Bitter old Syngman Rhee sat in his presidential mansion in Seoul, abrupt to General Mark Clark, who called on him, angry at President Eisenhower, who wrote him. Twice during the week, 78-year-old President Rhee said that he would go along with the U.S., then reversed himself. "We cannot accept any armistice so long as the Chinese remain in Korea-make no mistake about that," he said. "But if we feel forced to take unilateral action, we will talk it over, as friend to friend...
Rhee's most articulate spokesman in Seoul was Foreign Minister and Acting Premier Pyun Yung Tai, who sat last week in a bullet-pocked hospital in Seoul. Said Pyun: "The leaders of the free world are still suffering from the ideological hangover of the Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid...