Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korea, the military picture is better, thanks to the might & main of the U.S., to the lesser but nonetheless real help of 14 other U.N. nations, to the tenacity of the South Koreans themselves, and to the singular dedication of Korea's first & only President, Syngman Rhee. A 400,000-man ROK army, including twelve fully equipped divisions in the line, guards the young republic from further invasion and is building so fast that it may soon be strong enough to take over the whole front. It already holds more than half...
...months the Korean government of Syngman Rhee and its benevolent ally, the U.S., had been in a polite wrangle over currency payments. On top of the brutal ravages of war, South Korea was suffering, as it had since war's beginning, from galloping inflation. As prices kept on rising, the Rhee government demanded some $90 million in repayment for Korean won withdrawn by U.S. military and other agencies for their day-to-day uses. The U.S. recognized the debt, but before it 'paid the money it wanted some assurance that a new flood of dollars would...
...Syngman Rhee and his able finance minister, Paik To Chin, put their heads together and devised a plan. All the won in circulation would be called in and exchanged for a new unit, the hwan, at the rate of one hwan for 100 won. Not more than 50,000 won (about $10) could be handed in by any individual at the first exchange; the rest would be exchanged later on terms not yet specified. Last week government teams quietly went out by boat and train from Pusan to stock the banks with the new money. Then a nine-day exchange...
...Korea, U.S. correspondents, always reluctant to credit a general with anything more than bare literacy, continued to characterize him as a "bluff soldier"-a combat type with no political brains. What they meant was that he did not agree with their judgment of how to treat Korea's Syngman Rhee. Van Fleet, simple in the sense that he knows a simple issue when he sees one, recognized Rhee as the only Korean leader of any substance. His policy was to work with Rhee while the U.S. State Department's men in Korea tended to tear Rhee down without...
Rhee, Yoshida and Clark talked guardedly about Korea-Japan relations. At one point, Yoshida recalled hunting in Korea early in the century, asked Rhee: "Are there still many tigers in Korea?" "No," replied Syngman Rhee, "there are not many tigers left...