Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Major Sammy Lee, U.S. Army Medical Corps, was busy with other things. He was attached to the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Korea, and was so good at his medical job (ear, nose & throat) that he was called on to treat South Korean President Syngman Rhee recently. This was a professional honor Sammy enjoyed doubly, since he happens to be a Korean-American...
...violation. Hansen, for his part, hoped public pressure would change Washington's mind. If not, he would rather call off the deal and give the Government back the $20,000 it has paid him so far. In that case, Hansen says, he might give his Liberty to President Syngman Rhee of Korea, whom he regards as "a champion like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson of the ideals of democracy and freedom...
...battlefield of the cold war. Appropriately, it had not one Man of the Year but three-men diverse in almost every respect: Jawaharlal Nehru, the exasperating high priest of neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss his great claim to distinction: without his half-century fight for liberty and his stouthearted hatred of Communism, there would have been...
...settlements in Trieste and Iran, of his plans to "redeploy" the British fighting force in the Middle East, of his many chats with President Eisenhower, about "our Russian fellow mortals-for that is what they are," about atomic energy, about EDC (see INTERNATIONAL), about such "awkward personalities as Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kaishek" and other matters...
...Communists charged that the "perfidious" U.S. had masterminded Syngman Rhee's release of 27,000 anti-Communist