Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, there was a family party at his mother's and a big welcome from the citizens of Berkeley. At week's end, Dean got off a cable to Syngman Rhee, asking clemency for the two South Koreans under indictment for betraying him to the Communists, and began to answer a three-foot stack of mail-most of it from parents of soldiers still listed as missing in action. For the hero of Taejon, it was the end of a long and harrowing journey...
...joined the guerrillas in 1949, a year after most of them had deserted Syngman Rhee's army. He plodded up the mountains, muttered the proper passwords and quietly announced that the North Korean government had sent him to take charge. Lee's tablets of authority were a Russian dictionary, a Russian-language history of the Communist Party, and a Korean history of Bolshevism. His books never left his side; his orders were never questioned...
...much a hero in captivity as in battle, he came back to a hero's welcome. In the hush of a hospital ward at Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee decorated him with the Order of Taeguk, the government's highest military award. Old friends-officers and G.I.s who had fought beside him in the first dark days-clasped his hand and pounded his back. When the time came to begin the trip home to his wife, son, daughter and a grateful nation, the general wept softly...
...defensive in such a round-table conference, with Britain, perhaps, pressing for more trade with Communist China, or the French trying to unload their commitments in Indo-China, or the Indians calling for U.N. recognition of Communist China and the neutralization-if not surrender-of Formosa. Besides, Syngman Rhee had warned Dulles that South Korea would not sit in the conference if India were there...
...wanted a round-table conference as a prelude to what they sometimes call "a settlement of the cold war." The British wanted India there. They cherish the notion that Red China can be separated from the Kremlin, and they think that India can help them turn the trick. Furthermore, Syngman Rhee is anathema to the British. The Times of London sneered last week that the U.S. was beginning to "look more and more like a satellite of South Korea," an odd attitude in those who, in the next breath, accuse the U.S. of stubbornly disregarding the opinion of others...