Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Korea's President Syngman Rhee hailed the catch. "It's an omen for the nation," he proclaimed. "The turtle is our symbol of longevity and prosperity...
...Rightist, but he soon broke with Rightist President Syngman Rhee. Kim made a bitter fight against establishment of the U.S.-sponsored South Korean Republic, which he felt would permanently divide his homeland...
...President Syngman Rhee tried to calm the storm by replacing the Minister of Justice with pistol-toting Prosecutor Kwon, who had got his gun back from the police with an abject apology. But Rhee said that the Assembly committee could only question suspected collaborators and not arrest them. At week's end there was an uneasy truce...
Korea's President Syngman Rhee sadly dissented. Such conflicts might not "resolve" themselves, he said, until Communists had taken over every democratic government in the Pacific...
...North, the peasants were given titles of ownership immediately. The success of these reforms proved a strong bulwark against communism in rural areas and clearly demonstrated that honest and intelligent administration is possible in Korea. Now that the farm administration has been placed in the hands of Syngman Rhee's U.S.-approved government, however, corruption and waste threaten to obliterate the gains made by the occupation authorities...