Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...second time since their arrival in Korea, Americans and Russians were meeting to discuss the establishment of a free Korean government-after the period of sin tak was over. Sin tak had a particularly ugly sound to Korean ears. Meaning both trusteeship and guardianship, it was used by the Japanese when they first muscled into Korea under cover of a "Treaty of Guardianship" after the Russo-Japanese...
Tension over Tenses. Not that Molotov conceded much. To understand his note it was necessary to go back to the Moscow agreement of December 1945, when the U.S. and Russia decided to partition Korea during a period of trusteeship while the Koreans learned to rule themselves. After liberation, when the Koreans heard about this deal, they were unanimously enraged. Demonstrations against trusteeship broke out all over the country. In Seoul, the capital, the liberal People's Republic Group, which turned out to be a Communist front, said it was going to demonstrate against trusteeship, too. The U.S. commander...
They came back shortly to tell the Americans that everything was all right; now they wanted to demonstrate in favor of trusteeship instead of against...
...Moscow line the Communists became just about the only Korean group not on record against the Moscow agreement. Later, when Hodge and the Russian officials in the north got together to discuss a joint occupation plan, all negotiations broke down over Russian insistence that no Koreans who had opposed trusteeship be allowed to participate in the Government. The Americans, who had won over many Korean leaders to the idea that independence must come gradually, wanted to put the exclusion clause in the future tense, and exclude only those who should try to fan up opposition to the joint occupation after...