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Although the Vice President has no power under the Korean constitution, Kim's election was a sharp warning to Rhee, who often highhandedly disregards Assembly resolutions. Assemblymen were talking about amending the constitution to transfer administrative power from the President to the cabinet...
More than 90% of Japan's 44 million voters turned out for municipal elections last week, chose approximately 7,000 mayors and 179,000 city and village assemblymen. Candidates backing Premier Shigeru Yoshida's conservative Democratic Liberal Party got 80% of the votes, Socialists 15%, other parties and independents 4½%. The Communist vote: less than half...
...Rhee's choice for Prime Minister, amiable George Paik, a Protestant mission college president who had been Education Minister before the war. The resentment against Paik and his sponsor stemmed partly from the fact that both had rated an airlift escape from Seoul last June, while many ordinary Assemblymen had to stay behind and hide...
...labor, the professions, politics and government to discuss such questions as taxation, the size of the armed forces, federal aid to education, what to do about Tito, what to do about Formosa. Before his guests arrive, an "intellectual task force" of scholars will chum out background research. When the assemblymen have talked their way through the problems, their conclusions will be published for the rest of the U.S. to chew...
...government projects, the President lambasted them with a vigor that outdid Truman's gibes at the 80th Congress. Then Rhee unconstitutionally appropriated the funds by executive order. "Why should there be anything between a President and his people," he trumpeted. Occasionally during a conference with rebellious assemblymen, rising anger would drive Rhee out of the presidential mansion to a handy woodpile. Only after he had chopped the woodpile down to size would Rhee come back to the conference, his equanimity temporarily restored...