(2 of 2)
Later Rhee cautiously backtracked, said at a press conference that he was not opposed to the commission. He sent the commission a letter asking whether trusteeship would be the American type of "control by an [elected] majority with continuing rights of minority expression and opposition" or the Soviet concept of "restriction of political rights to particular classes, with no continuing rights of expression or opposition to the regime."
U.S. officials in Washington planned to continue rehabilitation of Southern Korea, expected no quick commission agreement on Rhee's question. After all, Brown was not Shtykov's grandmother.