Word: rhee
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
Korea's legislators showed their hostility to Rhee by demanding the resignation of the pro-Rhee cabinet on the ground that it was responsible for the war. Twice the Assembly refused to ratify 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...
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...