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...From what I gather Rhee is unpopular. The Reds appear to have support of a large part of the population...
...Rhee, who received a Master of Arts degree here in 1910, was elected president of the Seoul club at its organizational meeting last spring. However, the Associated Harvard Clubs have no record of this branch, and it is presumed that the Korean war, which followed soon after first meeting, prevented the club from getting word of its intention to organize to the home office...
When the Reds began shelling the city from the west bank of the Naktong, President Syngman Rhee's government made its third emergency move of the war*-to Pusan-and ordered the evacuation of Taegu's population (swollen from the normal 300,000 to about twice that figure). Soon the roads to east and south were choked with heavily burdened, white-clad refugees...
...before he arrived in Formosa last week (see Danger Zones). Douglas MacArthur paid his second visit within a month to the Korean fighting front. MacArthur's plane put down at a newly completed dirt airstrip in South Korea. The general alighted, talked briefly with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, Prime Minister Shin Sung Mo, and U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio. Said MacArthur to the Prime Minister: "You take care of the President. We are going to take care of your country...
...newspapers in Honolulu, Tokyo and Shanghai, and covered the Sino-Japanese war. A onetime assistant city editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Richards was its Washington correspondent when he took leave last fall to go to Korea as a special adviser on international affairs to President Syngman Rhee. He was planning to come home as war broke...