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...courier across the Potomac to State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs. There, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson studied the message, then hurried word up two floors above to Secretary Dulles, who relayed the word to the White House. Before the day was out, a wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West. But in the South Korean capital at Seoul, closest to the front and most concerned with the goal of a free Korea, there was no optimism: President Syngman Rhee cried that the truce terms were...
Rhee's stand, a last-ditch menace to an armistice, was grave enough to warrant Dwight Eisenhower's intervention (see col. j). For the U.S., it became the first tough problem rising from the truce deal. Others as dangerous lay ahead. The truce left the whole issue of Chinese Commu nist aggression unsettled. The Chinese Reds not only were relieved of military pressure, but they were enormously more powerful in Asia, by reason of being encamped in North Korea. Until the Red troops vacate, a unified Korea has about as much chance as a unified Germany with...
...Dwight Eisenhower's desk, a few days before the decisive break at Panmunjom, came a powerful letter from Korea's President Syngman Rhee. The doughty old patriot objected strenuously to the latest U.S. truce plan, on which his government had not been consulted (see INTERNATIONAL). His country's hope of unity and its future safety, he warned, were imperiled; rather than accept the armistice, he vowed to lead his people in a lone fight against the Communists and in defiance...
...policy which will make unification of Korea the "central objective" in the U.N. and in the international political conference that will follow the signing of a truce...
...might destroy the U.N. It might establish a bad precedent, too: other nations could use the same threat as a sort of ex-officio veto power to hamstring the U.N. And, more immediately important, the timing of the resolution was bad, might easily do damage to the tense Korean truce talks...