Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their words contained none of the bitter, carping hostility toward Syngman Rhee that had showed itself in the U.S., and even more in Europe, after Rhee balked at the truce terms. Said Robertson: "The Korean people were not opposed to the armistice because they like to suffer and die. They were opposed to it because of a deep fear that [it is] a Communist trick and device to win by negotiation what they have failed to achieve on the battlefield, a deep fear that the United Nations . . . might sacrifice Korea as Koreans feel they have been sacrificed in the past...
...sudden break came after a week of secret sessions, punctuated by delays, recesses and recriminations, and accompanied by bloody warfare (see below). Nam II & Co. asked for, and stayed until they got, U.N. assurances and clarifications about Syngman Rhee's future behavior. Then over Peking radio they broadcast the details of the secret sessions so that they would be on record. The U.N. had been quite explicit...
...Communists were still nettled over Syngman Rhee's release of 27,000 North Korean prisoners, but said with an elaborately magnanimous air that they would not let this matter impede a truce any longer, though they reserved the right to bring it up again at the post-truce political conference...
...chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history to have been raised up by the people"; 3) Chiang Kai-shek (who has traveled both high and low in the Justice...
...dealing with Rhee, the U.S. strategists and their emissaries had avoided two unwise extremes: 1) trying to remove stubborn old Syngman Rhee by a coup; 2) surrendering to him and going on with the war. They had proceeded on the assumption that Rhee would change his tune when he saw that no amount of guile or obstruction on his part would swerve the U.S. from its goal. Apparently Rhee became convinced...