Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syngman Rhee...
...recent weeks Syngman Rhee has sat in his mansion at Seoul, listening impatiently to a steady stream of U.S. diplomats, Congressmen and other official visitors telling him he must not disturb the peace, and spelling out the U.S. policy decision not to help him if he tries to go it alone. The news was. hard for Rhee to hear, harder still to accept...
Mutual Fear. Then, unexpectedly, one day last week, Syngman Rhee flew to Formosa for talks with Chiang Kaishek. The two anti-Communist leaders had specific issues to discuss: 1) What should be done with the 14,600 Chinese prisoners who are due for release at Panmunjom next January? 2) Should Chinese Nationalist troops be sent to Korea if fighting is resumed? But what drew them together was a mutual fear that their U.S. ally was drawing back from the front line in Asia...
...geographical sense-is a key element in reader interest." Thus I.P.I. found that readers who devoted an average of 18 minutes a day to reading their paper spent only two minutes on foreign stories, were amazingly ignorant of foreign affairs. More than 56% of those polled could not identify Syngman Rhee, 40% did not know who Stalin's successor was, and only 27% knew which political party is in power in Britain...
...prosperous Seoul businessmen are already riding around in new Buicks and Studebakers. Moreover, President Syngman Rhee, anxious for international prestige, has splendiferous plans for an international airline, an ocean-going merchant marine, and several luxury hotels. In a nation which pays its ministers $170 a month and where the average suit costs $125, corruption may siphon off some of the aid funds...