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Crafty Rhee Seeks One End By FORREST EDWARDS SEOUL (AP)--When President Syngman Rhee was told Sir Win- ston Churchill, a man of his own age, had denounced him in the British Parliament, the South Kor- ean snorted: "That old man doesn't know the opium war is over." That's Syrgian Rhee, outspoken, 78-year-old fighter and ook boo-- national father--of the Republic of Korea. One hundred and 77 years ago Saturday a handful of weakling American colonies proclaimed their unified independence, went to war, and won it. Today that nation, the world's most powerful force for democracy apd freedom, is on the verge of splitting with the slight, wrinkled, man who has fought all his adult life for the unity and inde- pendence of his own small country. ling Republic of Korea to the brink of parting with the United States after three years of fighting to- gether against a Communist ag- gressor? He is one of the world's most stubborn men. No one disputes He has been imprisoned, tor- tured, exiled, but he has never wavered in his fight for an in- dependent, unified Korea--first against the Korean monarchy, then against the Japanese conquerors, and now against the Communists. In his 78 years he has been called many things besides patriot--a revolutionist, a radical, a reaction- ary, a dictator who has crushed wherever possible those who op- posed him even when their motives were as patriotically inspired as his own. His brand of democracy is not the brand the West knows. He be- lieves in freedom of speech and freedom of the press only when it is not directed against him or his regime. eld "in protective . custody," today in Seoul's Westgate jail is Chough Pyong Ok, Opposition party leader who dared two weeks ago to brand as "unwise" Rhee's re- lease of 27,000 anti-Communist risoners of war .in defiance of nited Nations attempts to secure an armistice. Despite his age, Rhee is not senile. His mind still is quick, ac- tive, keen. He has a good grasp of world problems. American dip- Jomats who have pleaded, cajoled and fought with him on truce prob- lems can testify that he is not sub- to blandishment, not swayed persuasion. His greatest disappointment has been what he considers his aban- donment by the United Nations at a time when he considers military victory still possible in renewal of al oné war against the Commun- He has no faith in a ost armistice political conference, little faith in the success of a "peaceful unification" of Korea. He has fought against an armis- tice on the present battle line since the talks began nearly two years ago. He believes that there is only one justifiable cease-fire line--on the Yalu river boundary between North Korea and Manchuria. At press conferences with foreign dents he is good hu- mored, earnest, eloquent, and fre- quen! repetitious. If 'he has a Join wishes to emphasize, he at finding ways to inject it throughout the entire confer- ence. Council . Accused Of Change WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Controller 'W. Ernest Atkinson charged Tues- day night that someone had tam- pered or changed the minutes of a council meeting three weeks ago during which council decided to buy fire department uniforms from Bond Clothes Shops, Ltd. At that time council, which had previously split several times on whether the city should insist on union-made supplies and equipment or buy from the lowest bidder, turned down a board of control recommendation that the uniforms be bought from Tip Top Tailors, Ltd., a union company which had submitted a higher tender. Mr. Atkinson said Tuesday night council also passed a resolution under which council would always buy from the lowest tender in the future. He charged the motion was not included in minutes of that meeting and said in addressing council members in general that he didn't "blame you for trying to Baek out after seeing what you had one." New Law May Pay For Hogs OTTAWA (CP)--The federal gov- : ernment will seek legislation to authorize payment to farmers of the full commercial value of an- imals slaughtered because of hog cholera, the agriculture depart- Although he rules Korea with an iron hand, Rhee is widely and genuinely popular with the masses and respected and admired by his close associates. Their feelings for Rhee appar- ently extend without reservation to his Austrian-born wife, 20 years his unior. She is treated with respect y Koreans in Rhee's inner circle. How much she influences Rhee in affairs of state has long been the subject of conjecture. Only this week, after a competent source said Rhee had reneged on original acceptance of President Eisen- hower's offers of aid in return for Rhee's acceptance of an armistice, she called the source and; gave him a severe dressing dowd. Husbands Volunteer PORT ARTHUR (CP) -- Mayor F. O. Robinson pulls a mean Cupid's bow. Two weeks ago he received a letter from an Austrian widow, Louise Palmstrorfer, asking him to help her find a Canadian husband. The mayor said Tuesday that he has two eligible Ontario farmer; lined up. Both offer '"a good hom¢" to Mrs. Palmstorfer, about 30, {and her 12-year-old son. The mayor said one farmer is from Bamberg, a village near Kitchener, and the other from Markdale," 70 miles northwest of Toronto. NOMINATE WINTERS LUNENBURG, N.S. (CP) -- Re- sources Minister Winter Tuesday night was nominated to contest the new Lunenburg - Queens constit- uency for the Liberals in the Aug. 10 federal election. Reds Face Big Labor Opposition In the world today there are twotoo), union activity depends on international bodies of workers. One is the democratic Internation- al Confederation of Free Trade Unions -- ICFTU. It includes 90- odd national organizations in 73 countries and boasts a total of 54,000,000 workers, notes Arnold Bechtman in the Christian Science Monitor. The other is the Soviet Union's special creation--the World Fed- eration of Trade Unions. In that organization every worker is in: deed like every other worker, since he is subordinated to the same dictate -- Kremlin policy. Whether he is a Frenchman or an American (like Harry Bridges) or an Indian or an Icelander (where trade-union communism exists, Soviet foreign policy. During July in Stockholm, Swe- den, a few hundred delegates will assemble in the parliament build- ing to open eight days of delibera- tions on political and economic problems confronting the world and its working people. These will be labor's freely elected spokes- men to the ICFTU's Third World Congress. STRONGLY UNITED Though they are strongly united against Soviet totalitarianism and, for that matter, against totaliar- ianism of any characer, .they are divided on a good many other questions of economic and social import. Such differences are inevitable when one realizes that the ICFTU consists of trade unionists whose power and social gains have been made in a capitalist economy, as in America, and of trade union- ists who are democratic Socialists of the genuine Marxist variety, whose power stems from a labor party which they control. ICFTU includes the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organization, the United Mine Workers in the United States; the big British Trade Union Congress; the Canadian federa- tions; the German, French, Italian, Scandinavian centres; and the labor federations of India, Pakis- tan, Australia, Japan and Tunisia. Yet a difference as fundamental as this--free - enterprise versus Marxist socialism--has been no stumbling block to the growth of the ICFTU, since its formation in London in December. 1949. The difference is not ignored. It is accepted as a fact of life be- cause' ICFTU affiliates are agreed that, so long as you believe in democratic freedom and political liberty, the methods of achieving economic balance in one country THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, July 8, 1053 413 are the unique business of that country. If the British unionists want nationalization and the German unionists want codetermination and American unionists are satis- fied to live under a capitalist democracy, and all believe in the basic tenets of freedom, then the canopy of free trade unionism is big and broad enough for all of them. STAND TOGETHER That is yay American labor stood behind the German Federa- tion of Labor's right to seek co- determinati in industry when conservativé®American opinion was pressing the occupation authorities to stop the enactment of codeter- mination. Why should American and Brit; ish labon, for example, contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues to the ICFTU if its achievements w e r e nonexistent? Why should leaders of small union federations with even smaller treasuries travel thousands of cost- ly miles to Stockholm? The answer is that the ICFTU's very existence has made it a pow erful symbol of resistance to the menace of Soviet totalitarianism, Moscow can tell the workers of the world that imperialist reaction is their ehemy. 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