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...President announced that President Syngman Rhee would arrive in Washington on July 26 to talk about the failure of the Geneva Conference to unify Korea, gave the newsmen a little lecture about the importance of his omnibus tax-reform bill, and threw the conference open to questions. As the reporters tried to draw him out on what was going on in Paris, he parried the questions in general terms...
...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...
South Korean Congressmen earn $78 a month and-in the eyes of highhanded old Syngman Rhee-aren't worth even that. Rhee has publicly branded individual legislators as "nincompoops" and "opportunists," and has privately described the Republic's unicameral Assembly as "probably the worst legislative body in the world...
Worthy Pupil. Korea was first on the agenda, but not first in the hearts of the delegates. The South Korean delegate proposed Syngman Rhee's plan for supervised elections, to be held in North Korea only, for the loo-odd seats kept vacant in the Republic of Korea assembly. North Korea just as predictably demanded, among other things, withdrawal of all foreign troops. As Dulles rose to endorse South Korea's plan, Chou scribbled notes, asked to speak as soon as Dulles sat down...
Blunt Recommendations. Clark is never less than frank. He can express his admiration for President Syngman Rhee the patriot and his irritation with Rhee the devious politician. He is equally blunt in his recommendations for the future...