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Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...
Abused to Abusive. When iron-fisted ex-Newspaperman Syngman Rhee was deposed from the presidency last year, the newspapers were given more freedom than they had ever enjoyed in the history of the Hermit Kingdom. They promptly ran wild. Themselves abused in the past, they suddenly became outrageously abusive. New publications and agencies proliferated; at one time there were 128 dailies and 311 news agencies, many run by shady operators who never published a single issue but used them as fronts for smuggling operations, black-marketeering or blackmail. Reporters, paid $30 to $40 a month, were ordered to exhume scandals...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...regime were arrested and jailed. Strikes were banned, and the seven-day work week was now mandatory. Along with known Communists, thousands of liberals were jailed, and politicians nervously avoided their old friends for fear of coming under suspicion of "antistate" activity. Even the students, who were behind Syngman Rhee's ouster in April 1960, were cowed...
...make matters worse, Premier Chang forced some prominent ROK officers into early retirement. But, lacking the crafty sophistication of Syngman Rhee, who used to reshuffle his officer corps with drastic regularity to make plots difficult, Chang left too many of his military opponents in their old jobs. When Plotter General Pak set his military revolt in motion last week, only 3,600 soldiers were needed to bring the government down and send Premier Chang into hiding...