Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms against the common peril, there arises the unpleasant problem of which ally must pay the other for services rendered. After World War I. the canard spread that France had even collected rent for the use of trenches on its soil. Last week South Korea's President Syngman Rhee went just as far, if not much farther, in a bill for $684,600,000 that he sent to the U.N. Command, i.e., to the U.S.. which foots almost all the bills...
...spent $22 billion and took 140,000 casualties in the Korean war. Since war's end. the U.S. has contributed another $2 billion to rehabilitate South Korea and bolster its army. This was not enough for Syngman Rhee, whose mismanaged economy is in trouble and in need of money. His bill, submitted in infinite, frequently faulty detail, asks $471.7 million for U.N. use of land during the Korean...
...parade ground of the Korean Military Academy just outside Seoul, President Syngman Rhee and General (ret.) James Van Fleet climbed into a black jeep for a special review of the cadet corps. For both men it was a big day; both had worked hard for it, both had waited for it eagerly. There, on a site that lay along Van Fleet's "Golden Line" the location of what was to be 1951's last-ditch stand against the Communists -the four-year-old academy last week graduated its first class. Guns boomed, the band blared, sabers flashed...
...Syngman Rhee is for Syngman Rhee...
...rise of the anti-American feeling has already ruffled some tempers in Washington. Last week Kentucky's Democratic Congressman Frank Chelf wrote to Syngman Rhee, reminding him of the U.S. economic aid to Korea. Said Chelf, referring to the anti-American feeling in Asia: "That's not biting the hand that feeds; it is chewing the arm halfway out of the socket...