Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued from a sound position: the U.S. owed a certain loyalty to its principal cobelligerent, South Korea, and South Korea's Syngman Rhee was firmly opposed to having India at the conference. More important, the U.S. knew that a round-table conference would: 1) give the Reds a chance to prolong indefinitely the negotiation of a specific settlement, and 2) tie the question of Korean settlement to the demand of Red China for a seat in the U.N. The U.S. is not opposed to a round-table conference per se, but objects to an Asia-wide conference until...
...Positions. High above the Pacific, on his way back from talks with Syngman Rhee, Secretary Dulles framed a U.N. resolution calling for a peace conference between "two sides"-the 16 nations that sent troops to Korea and the Communists. For the U.S., such a plan had manifest advantage...
ARGUMENT No. 2 was over India. Washington worried that the Indians might turn out to be "neutral on the side of the Communists." Syngman Rhee was quite likely to boycott the conference if the Indians were seated...
...Britain's willingness to discuss the recognition question at the Korean conference rested on the tiny word "etc." tacked onto Article 60 by the Communists. The much more urgent objective-Korean unity-is regarded in London as nothing more than a bloody nuisance. British editorialists almost unanimously regard Syngman Rhee as a dangerous man and John Foster Dulles as too ready to give in to him. Then, to rouse these feelings even higher, came the Aug. 7 U.N. declaration that all 16 members who fought in Korea would jointly resist a Communist breach of the armistice. The last sentence...
...Korea, another U.S. ally put himself on record, and the world on notice. To crowds in Seoul gathered to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Republic of Korea, 78-year-old President Syngman Rhee said...