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...ancient enmities and current dislikes. Before Asia's non-Communist powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected...
...marble classified-ad counter and stuck out his hand. "I am President Rhee of the Republic of Korea," he said. The flabbergasted clerk took his hand and murmured, "I'm glad to meet you," just as John Simmons, the equally flabbergasted State Department protocol officer, caught up with Syngman Rhee and whisked him off to the offices of the Star's Editor Ben McKelway for a chat...
...doorstep of a brick mansion on upper 16th Street-now firmly chaperoned by Simmons. To the housekeeper who answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next door, where for years he waited...
Jitters & Blunt Greetings. Such unorthodox behavior at the beginning of President Rhee's 14-day state visit to the U.S. was enough to keep the State Department in constant jitters, and to emphasize the fact that Syngman Rhee is no ordinary chief of state. If the brusque old man decided he wanted to visit an old neighbor, or to thank a newspaper for its support-or to scold the U.S. for faintheartedness-he did just that. When he received the key to the city, Rhee grinned broadly. "I will drive as fast as I want to," he said...
...Unknown Soldier, Rhee signaled to a State Department aide who trotted behind him carrying a shopping bag. At each stop the aide solemnly opened the shopping bag and removed a red maple sapling from the old palace garden in Seoul, and Rhee solemnly planted it. At Mount Vernon Syngman Rhee paused to acknowledge the cheers of a crowd of tourists, and a small girl begged him to stand still so her mother could snap a picture. "Take her picture with me," said Rhee, drawing the child close to him, "and be sure to send me a print...