Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years as President of the Republic of Korea, grizzled old (83) Syngman Rhee has fought the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. But as a pioneer in his country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...
...State Department expressed its concern lest "the situation degenerate to the point where hostilities will break out." And just as the situation seemed to be degenerating further, Syngman Rhee's government belatedly offered, after all, to "accept all Koreans in Japan-provided the Japanese government gives them suitable compensation...
...Republic of Korea's hard-boiled old President Syngman Rhee dislikes opposition, newspaper criticism and elections -especially elections when, as recently, they have run against his Liberal Party. Not only has he been plagued by all three but also by a more serious menace: growing Communist infiltration and espionage from North Korea...
Cantankerous old (83) Syngman Rhee does not like political opposition, but in the ten years since Korea's independence, and at the insistence of the U.S. and the U.N., has learned to accept it. Police harassment of antigovernment politicians has slackened steadily, and last week when the republic named 233 members to the unicameral National Assembly, its election was the most orderly...
Around the world, another year began for three wise old men: in Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, 83, watched fireworks and a military parade celebrating his birthday; in Manhattan, energetic ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 80, conceded that "I do have a tendency to get tired if I stay up past 2 a.m."; in Budapest, sad-eyed, flinty Josef Cardinal Mindszenty turned 66, spent a quiet day, his 511th as a refugee in the U.S. legation...