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Necessary Agreement. If the news called for exploitation of Communist troubles, it also emphasized the need for greater unity of the anti-Communist nations. On this front, too, the week brought a major development-Syngman Rhee's agreement to abide by the terms of a truce in Korea. Rhee's stubborn holdout had been in large part the result of the tragic U.S. failure to define clear goals in the Korean war. But the truce negotiations had gone so far that no advantage to the anti-Communists could be gained by delaying a truce. Rhee's stand...
TRUCE TALKS Agreement This week, seemingly beyond reasonable doubt, a Korean armistice was imminent. The U.S. had outlasted South Korea's Syngman Rhee in the battle of wills. And the Communists appeared so tremulous for a truce that their anxiety stood out on them almost visibly-like drops of sweat...
...dealing with Rhee, the U.S. strategists and their emissaries had avoided two unwise extremes: 1) trying to remove stubborn old Syngman Rhee by a coup; 2) surrendering to him and going on with the war. They had proceeded on the assumption that Rhee would change his tune when he saw that no amount of guile or obstruction on his part would swerve the U.S. from its goal. Apparently Rhee became convinced...
...just the question of who is right, but who has most power, was at issue this week in the U.S.'s battle of wills with stubborn old Syngman Rhee. When it came down to it, Rhee had an imposing show of power. How to counter it was the subject of a conference called by Mark Clark, and attended by Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins, Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor and Far East air and naval commanders. Clark & Co. decided that Rhee could...
...secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...