1. Korean War
... not sign a truce with the North Koreans and the Chinese. General Mark W. Clark "believed that the armistice was fair, by and large." Clark criticized Rhee "for his deliberate attempts to block the Armistice and his threats to take unilateral action whenever it suited him; he might well have forced our government and the UN to continue the war against their will ... ." Others believed that having this "sinister man" as a treaty partner could drag the U.S. into another world war. In a forceful letter to Rhee, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated that "the principle of unity cannot ...
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