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Re: Muccio & Rhee

HI YSK - unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the link to F. Donner's secret diary is in Korean. Is there an English version out there? Has this diary been published?

hjm

ysk wrote:

I forgot to mention - Francesca Donner's secret diary is the original source.  I believe more exact quote is: "...Americans in Korea will die one by one..."  ysk
----- Original Message -----
From: ysk
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Muccio & Rhee
 Rhee's violent temperament is well documented.  For some reason, Rhee's 'kill Americans' rage is seldom mentioned.

The reference cited below was published by Chosun Ilbo, the most conervative and pro-US newspaper in Seoul.

ysk


An English-Korean Cartoon History of the Korean War

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http://monthly.chosun.com/html/200005/200005220017_1.html

"As the invaders neared Seoul, the capital of the young republic which had been established only two years before, President Rhee could not sleep the first night of the invasion. Bad news kept coming in from the front lines and a North Korean fighter plane even strafed an area near Kyungmoodae, the presidential mansion. At 3 a.m., Monday, President Rhee called for General MacArthur. A duty officer picked up the phone and asked the South Korean president to call later because the general was soundly asleep.

¡°If you don¡¯t waken the general, American citizens will die one by one while the general sleeps in peace!¡± Rhee, a Princeton Unviersity Ph.D. who had lived forty years in the United States, shouted in his fluent English. The president¡¯s rage made the duty officer waken the general.

Rhee told MacArthur, ¡°If your country had been a little more concerned about us, we would not have come to this plight. Haven¡¯t we warned you many times? Now you must save our country!¡± "