Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syngman Rhee did only what he had warned he would do. The U.N. Command, and the rest of the world, had long regarded Rhee as an obstreperous but powerless old man who might threaten but would be brought to heel. Now an awful realization dawned: maybe the old man meant what he said. For Rhee, the release of the prisoners was entirely consistent. In more than half a century of fighting for a free and united Korea, he had made it clear by his acts that he was prepared for anything, from torture to an open break with his allies...
...sign that some sort of cease-fire might still be possible came from Red Commanders Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai. In a surprisingly mild letter to Mark Clark, Kim and Peng accused the U.S. of "conniving" with Rhee to release the prisoners, but did not even threaten to break off the talks. Instead, they asked General Clark some pertinent, practical questions...
...National Council authorized a committee to safeguard American freedom from both Communist infiltration and "wrong methods of meeting that infiltration." It would be called the "Committee on the Maintenance of American Freedom," with "instructions to watch developments which threaten the freedom of any of our people or their institutions...
...House of Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords gave...
...bonus, MacArthur offered Harry Byrd his own updated formula for getting a decision in Korea: "We still possess the potential to destroy Red China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply lines from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such a hazard might well...