Word: syngman
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...morning last week, 77-year-old Syngman Rhee called his cabinet together and prepared to spring the trap on representative government in South Korea. He told his ministers he planned to dissolve the Assembly, which opposes him, amend the constitution, and seek his re-election by direct vote of the people, whom he manipulates through a lough police force and a controlled press. Rhee's chief crony, Lee Bum Suk, the Home Minister, supported the move. The end of Korea's infant parliament was set for noon...
...only name that counts with the peasants of South Korea is Syngman Rhee. If it were left to the peasants. 77-year-old Dr. Rhee would probably be re-elected President this month. But under the republic's U.N.-sponsored constitution, the election of the President is the business of the National Assembly, which has had an opportunity of observing the heavy-handed political methods of Dr. Rhee at close quarters. Dr. Rhee's personally loyal 60,000-man police force and his penchant for jailing critics of his government's corruption have aroused strong opposition...
...major internal crisis threatened Korea, but the U.N. hardly knew how to intervene. Above the 38th parallel, Communists were sharpening their pencils. Roughshod old Syngman Rhee was a propaganda gift...
...shell-cratered streets, waving flags and shouting "Long live Van Fleet!" as the general passed by in an open jeep. Beaming, Van Fleet accepted a small Korean flag from a school child in the crowd, rode the remainder of the route waving the flag. At a reception, President Syngman Rhee presented Van Fleet with a poem he had written. Excerpts...
...party's best asset. To the opposition, he has become an unexpected Good Samaritan for keeping the polls free (they gave him an admiringly inscribed copy of Peace of Mind). To the Western world, too often handicapped in its outer reaches by propped-up Bao Dais and Syngman Rhees, he has brought a glimmer of hope for democracy in the Orient...