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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...
Suddenly, in the four months from April through July 1944, U.S. forces take giant steps to victory. MacArthur leapfrogs nearly 1,000 miles along the New Guinea coast to threaten the Philippines. The Navy moves into the Marianas, 3,500 miles from Pearl Harbor, strips the Japanese fleet of its air arm in a great battle off Saipan and sets up new advance bases. And the Marines and Army take Saipan, Tinian and Guam...
...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...