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...security has been attested to by a liberal borrowing of its principles by the present administration. Unfortunately, the case for SEATO or the United States supported Baghdad Pact was not so clear cut at NATO; in forming a similar type of alliance which formally committed us to Chiang and Syngman Rhee, Dulles diplomacy may have been conducted with more frantic zeal than wisdom...
...eleven years as President of the Republic of Korea, grizzled old (83) Syngman Rhee has fought the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. But as a pioneer in his country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...
...State Department expressed its concern lest "the situation degenerate to the point where hostilities will break out." And just as the situation seemed to be degenerating further, Syngman Rhee's government belatedly offered, after all, to "accept all Koreans in Japan-provided the Japanese government gives them suitable compensation...
...Republic of Korea's hard-boiled old President Syngman Rhee dislikes opposition, newspaper criticism and elections -especially elections when, as recently, they have run against his Liberal Party. Not only has he been plagued by all three but also by a more serious menace: growing Communist infiltration and espionage from North Korea...
Cantankerous old (83) Syngman Rhee does not like political opposition, but in the ten years since Korea's independence, and at the insistence of the U.S. and the U.N., has learned to accept it. Police harassment of antigovernment politicians has slackened steadily, and last week when the republic named 233 members to the unicameral National Assembly, its election was the most orderly...