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With Syngman Rhee, the duly elected President of South Korea, facing a Russian-run North Korea, with the triumphant Chinese Reds pouring south over China from Shanghai, with criticisms of his policies mounting in the U.S., Acheson turned on his attackers...
...indignant public statement they charged that many of the victims had no trials and had been shot without the consent of President Syngman Rhee or other civil officials. The clergymen appealed to the U.N. Commission in Korea to prevent any more "kangaroo court" executions...
Retreat is contagious. Already some Korean civilians were leaving Seoul for the south, and the price of a truck ride to Pusan hovered around three million won ($700). President Syngman Rhee put his country, now facing invasion for the second time in six months, under martial...
...black week for the tired soldiers of Syngman Rhee's Republic of Korea. The heart to fight Chinese Communists seemed to have gone out of them...
Last week Rhee bowed to his domestic critics, appointed a cabinet in which all but one member belonged to the parliamentary opposition. For Prime Minister the legislators accepted John Myin Chang, Korea's Ambassador to the U.S. during the last two years, one of the few Roman Catholics in high Korean politics, and a member of the Conservative Democratic Party, the Assembly's strongest...