Word: syngman
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...question of right took on new and more dangerous proportions when Syngman Rhee's South Korean government voiced its violent opposition to the new United Nations truce plan (see WAR IN ASIA). Furious because the current plan does not point toward a unified Korea, the South Korean leaders threatened to pull their troops out of the U.N. and fight on alone...
...week long, stubborn Syngman Rhee, veteran fighter for a free Korea, sat on his terrace overlooking Seoul and waged a war of nerves. His object was unmistakable: to block the armistice as a ruinous compromise...
...defect in U.N. negotiating technique had become quite plain. This was a tendency to make some demands for bargaining purposes, or to soothe the feelings of South Korea's intransigent Syngman Rhee, without making a sufficiently clear distinction between these demands and those basic questions of principle on which the U.N. was determined not to surrender...
...Seoul, the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...
...embassy at Seoul, Counsellor Edwin Lightner Jr. led a State Department clique that disliked and derogated Korea's President Syngman Rhee. Last June, Lightner & Co. vainly tried to prevent Rhee's reelection, accusing the 77-year-old President of autocratic methods. Last week, in line with a policy of support for Rhee, Secretary John Foster Dulles ordered Lightner back home for reassignment...