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...takes a brave man to oppose highhanded, old (81) Syngman Rhee, who has won every presidential election since South Korea became a republic in 1948. As the leader who fought the Japanese for half a century and held his country together against the Communists, Rhee is the only man whose name is a household word in his nation. He has never been content to leave it at that. Opponents have found it unhealthy to defy Rhee and his machine; some have been beaten up or jailed; others have decided to withdraw. This year, seeking a third term, Rhee faced...
...train pulled into Seoul, it was met by a crowd of 20,000, many of them students from Korea University and the National University of Seoul, both anti-Rhee strongholds. "Overthrow Dictator Syngman Rhee," they shouted. Some climbed over the train and smashed windows in an effort to view Shinicky's body. Then, when the body was transferred to an ambulance, demonstrators snake-danced through the streets after...
...Japan (rich in sardine, mackerel and flatfishes), an arbitrary "Rhee line" imposed by Japanese-hating Syngman Rhee keeps Japanese fishermen at least 60 miles away from the Korean coast. Southwest in the East China Sea, the Far East's best trawling grounds, the Japanese may not come within 100 miles of the Communist China coast. The coastal waters of North America, once a plentiful source of salmon and halibut, are now closed to Japan by a U.S. Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds...
...Manila, where Dulles announced that the U.S. will build its atomic research center for Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. In sensitive Japan he carefully went through Japanese immigration procedures, had his passport stamped, and spoke of the "relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation" between Japan...
Korea, June 1953. Dulles warned Red China through India's Prime Minister Nehru that the U.S. was prepared to attack Manchurian bases with atomic weapons if the Communists did not sign a truce agreement at Panmunjom. Although South Korea's President Syngman Rhee subsequently and illegally released 22,000 Chinese and North Korean P.W.s, the Communists decided to sign...