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Seated a few yards from him, the visitor does not notice the marks of strain-the extended eyelids, the twitching right eye, the flaccid skin-but sees only the hard, skeptical eyes, the restless energy of the small frame. Rhee is the last of the old heroes of the Korean struggle for independence, a man with long memories. Just outside Seoul lie the ruins of Westgate prison, where the Emperor Koh-Jong's jailers spliced Rhee's fingers between wooden wands which the jailers twisted until his fingers were almost ripped from the joints; there he was imprisoned...
...small, alert woman with greying hair and bright hazel eyes, she has lost none of her Viennese animation. Her billowing dresses are tailored for an Austrian peasant effect. She talks lightly of Washington society, Hong Kong social intrigue, New York or Paris fashions. But the observant visitor is not misled: Madame Rhee is a woman attuned to politics and power. She is present, or in the background, of most vital meetings. When she and Rhee met, their common language was English. Today she professes to have forgotten the German of her youth, and her English is so much better than...
...stiffly to attention during the playing of the Korean or U.S. national anthems, the wind winnowing his thin white hair, his battered grey felt hat clutched to his breast. But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma," and in recent months he has needed...
...week's most notable visitor was Adlai Stevenson, fresh from his Manhattan speech (TIME, Feb. 23). Before going to the White House, Stevenson accepted Eisenhower's offer of full official assistance for the forthcoming Stevenson world trip by getting a morning's briefing at the State Department. Then, in a two-hour meeting, the man who won the presidency and the man who lost it sat down to lunch (guinea hen, wild rice), swapped reminiscences of the campaign, chatted as warmly as old friends. Stevenson was impressed by the hospitality: he was beginning to like Washington, "perhaps...
...British visitor to old friends Baruch, Eisenhower, Truman...