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...allowed the political situation in South Korea to flounder to a point where old (77) Syngman Rhee could make the U.S. look ridiculous by cutting off Voice of America broadcasts (see WAR IN ASIA). The real point of the Rhee scandal is that after two years of war in Korea, the U.S. has neither been able to trust Rhee or to find some other leader whom it could trust...
Said an old Syngman Rhee crony last week: when Rhee gets a critical note from President Truman or the State Department, his attitude is-"I know you don't like me and I don't care." Last week, obviously not caring how his acts affect his allies or the Korean war, stubborn, 77-year-old President Rhee kept trying to get his highhanded way and smashing at whatever interfered...
...When the Voice of America in news broadcasts quoted editorials critical of Rhee, the South Korean chief silenced the Voice by denying it the use of his country's ten-station network...
...opinion in this country that we should complete a withdrawal from Korea," cried Bevanite M.P. Emrys Hughes, a bellicose pacifist, "because the war there [is] one of the most cruel and futile in history." Since the Americans had made a mess of the P.W. situation and the Syngman Rhee affair, some Britons implied, they probably have balled up the truce negotiations just as badly...
Foreign Office men to the mission, Minister .of State Selwyn Lloyd and the ministry's top China hand, Robert H. Scott. Alexander will talk to the generals, Lloyd to Rhee and the politicos...