Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...resolution also calls for 1) free U.N.-supervised elections and establishment of a democratic regime for all Korea; 2) a seven-nation U.N. commission to help set up the new government and help rehabilitate Korea; 3) speedy relief for the war-torn country...
...stage was set for the final battle in the "police action" in Korea. This week General Douglas MacArthur broadcast his second ultimatum to the North Koreans: "I, as the United Nations Commander in Chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." MacArthur was ready to hit the Communists above the 38th parallel with another coordinated air-sea-ground offensive...
...warship hit by floating mines off Korea. The destroyers Brush and Mansfield had suffered eleven dead, three missing, 17 wounded, but managed to limp back to port. In Washington, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said the mines were Russian-made, "only recently from the warehouse," probably set adrift in Korean rivers. More than 65 have been swept up so far. They are illegal under The Hague Convention of 1907, which forbids unmoored mines. Russia, however, had never signed the convention...
...from the League of Nations. In 1919 resistance leaders who had remained in Korea met secretly in Seoul to plot a revolt. Swayed by secondhand reports of Rhee's views, the conspirators distributed to every village in Korea a copy of a Korean Declaration of Independence and a set of orders...
...They lived simply, bought a twelve-room stucco house on 16th Street only after advisers suggested that it would be a good idea to have a reasonably impressive establishment. Rhee, who drank no Western liquors and smoked only an occasional cigarette, avoided Washington's cocktail party set. Most of his time was spent in attempts to interest the State Department in the Provisional Government and Korean independence. Even after World War II began, the U.S. remained stonily indifferent. When Rhee mailed his credentials to the State Department shortly after Pearl Harbor, he was asked to come and take them...