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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...
...Rodgers & Hart, who wrote the song for Jeanette MacDonald in Love Me Tonight, had a different picture in their minds: Jeanette jogging along a French country lane in a one-horse trap...
Friends of Eisenhower were worried over a possible trap. How could he answer the inevitable (and legitimate) question whether he would campaign for Taft if Taft should be nominated? If he said no, Republican leaders would resent it. If he said yes, he would be promising to campaign for Taft while still a general. If he were the nominee, he could retire; but would he retire if Taft is nominated...
...been particularly distressing to me that the CRIMSON and Miss Stock have fallen into the same trap as that which they accuse NSA. The guilt by association principal has apparently carried so far that when a former officer of an organization (NSA) makes a statement as Mr. Elsenberg did, it is taken as that organization's official position. The truth of the matter is that the only official statement made by NSA in regard to the Madison meeting on academic freedom, peace and equality was to call attention to the fact that NSA was not invited and consequently...
Fish & Olive Oil. Iron Curtain diplomats in London have been telling the British for months that the only solution for their economic plight is to cut loose from the U.S. and trade with Russia. The British government and many Britons know that this is a trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany...