Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France, and so long as I hold that office, it is for me to interpret French opinion." Now Dulles was alarming U.S. allies in Asia (Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek), and risking the displeasure of many Americans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in agreeing to talk about Indo-China...
...draw), pushed each other into fish ponds, jammed themselves solid in revolving doors, broke plate glass in the hall and boulders in the rock garden alike with the sheer weight of their enthusiastic numbers. "With this woman," moaned one cop, "we must take more precautions than we did with Syngman Rhee...
...Korean P.W.s were more reserved than their Chinese comrades. They peered, blinking, from boxcars as the crowd gave them apples, cakes, caramels and tea. "Mansei, mansei [Long live]," the P.W.s said, while a station loudspeaker repeatedly blared the Lullaby of Broadway. Then Syngman Rhee paid them recorded tribute. In their stand against the Communist explainers, said President Rhee, the P.W.s had dealt the Communists "the most resounding ideological defeat in their history." But there was deep sadness in the gayly bedecked station, and the welcome soon turned into a wake. Old men and women shuffled along the platform, showing...
...Americans turned their native ingenuity to a new game they called "relay race." They set up "imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
South Korea's embittered old Syngman Rhee, angry because a last-minute head count by the Indians had sent 135 more prisoners (who presumably had changed their minds) back to the Communists, threatened to attack the Indian guards. The U.N. command told Rhee, in effect, that if this happened the Eighth Army would have to repel the assault...