Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost without realizing it, is heading towards a new bilateralism. Acting alone, Washington guaranteed Formosa, pledged aid to Syngman Rhee, expects to sign a treaty with Franco Spain. This week the U.S. and its U.N. allies disagreed publicly in the U.N. General Assembly: though some clucked over this trend, and others were made nervous by it, it brought a refreshing new realism into events...
Fresh from his trip out on the line in Asia, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew home this week, bringing the results of his conferences with Syngman Rhee: a hard and fast treaty of alliance between the U.S. and the Republic of South Korea, which assures the Koreans of U.S. military protection, without binding the U.S. to support any vagaries of Rhee's foreign policy. Also, with a $1 billion aid program, Dulles agreed to build up ravaged South Korea into "an Asian show window of democracy.'" Clearly, the U.S. has firmly planted the flag of freedom...
...side stood South Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee, demanding implacable enmity to the Communists. On the other stood the U.S.'s European allies-in particular, Great Britain-demanding conciliatory gestures to Red China. When the political conference fails, insisted Rhee (he said "when," not "if"), South Korea wants to resume the war to unify Korea. The U.S., he insisted, had committed itself to joining him in resuming the war. The U.S. had made no such flat promise. On the other side of the globe, the British rose to a gentlemanly boil when they read that John Foster Dulles...
...Syngman Rhee, Korea's veteran fighter for freedom, sat on a stone bench in his garden at Seoul. He still spoke against the truce, but his talk now was dull and resigned. There had been some fear that his ROK troops might refuse to withdraw from the buffer zone-but they ceased fire along with their U.N. comrades in arms (see below). Syngman Rhee, whose opposition might have wrecked the truce if the Communist hunger for a truce had not been voracious, now declared: "My desire is strong not to follow unilateral policy if it can be avoided...
Article III. All prisoners desiring repatriation will be returned within 60 days. The others will be placed in custody of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (India, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia) and guarded by Indian troops only. To placate Syngman Rhee, the Indians will take custody in a part of the buffer zone near Panmunjom-which is outside Rhee's administrative area. For 90 days the Reds may send representatives to persuade the unwilling prisoners to return to their homeland. The number of such "explainers" is limited to seven for each 1,000 prisoners, and the interviews will be monitored...