^KOREA: The Walnut. 时代周刊. March 9, 1953 [2010-03-20]. (原始内容存档于2013-05-21) (英语). In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York.