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Bitterness & the Boy Scouts. By the end of World War II, Syngman Rhee had little left of the pacifist idealism which had motivated him in 1919, had acquired a bitter and intimate understanding of the Korean proverb "When whales fight, the shrimp are eaten." Bypassing the Secretary of State, he persuaded the War Department to return him to liberated Korea simply "as a private person." General John Hodge, who commanded U.S. occupation forces, saw in Rhee a possible rallying point, a focus which might bring order out of South Korea's chaos. When Hodge led Rhee onto a platform...
...waters five miles out, and fined each skipper 5,000 pesos ($580). The shrimpers protested the fine and insisted that they were at least ten miles offshore. The Mexicans said that they had no intention of keeping Americans from fishing off their coast, but wished only to keep foreign shrimp boats under license and control...
...announced: "The U.S. upholds the legal right of its fishermen to operate on the free high seas up to within three miles of the coast of Mexico." He got quick backing in Washington, where angry U.S. Congressmen spoke up. Growled Washington State's Representative Thor Tollefson: "If these shrimp boats were seized ten miles at sea, it is definitely a case of piracy on the high seas...
...sweltering Tampico, where the shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
Before long, teachers from all over town were parading their charges through the museum, many for the first time. The kids fondled Daniel Boone's own flintlock, modeled the formal tasseled coat worn by one of the city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...