Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high spirits Delhi Siamese broadcasters beamed this question to their countrymen: What would happen if you happened to be in the privy when Pitul's morning broadcast began? Several days later Radio Bangkok solemnly took up the challenge. In a nationwide broadcast, Siamese were told that in such an emergency they might simply sit up straight...
...Burma's west coast lies a long chain of flying fields, all the way back to Calcutta and beyond. By this route new planes were coming to be added to Burma's thin complement of bombers and U.S.-made fighters. The Allies raided Bangkok, reported they set great fires. They pounced on Jap airfields, riddling their ground establishments. In one raid near week's end, returning pilots reported they had smashed up 27 Jap planes, mostly bombers, on the ground...
...dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral malaria. He had come through the jungles from Bangkok, outwitted the Japs who arrested him as a spy on the Thailand-Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned in his masterpiece with the story of the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea, which he survived by a near-miracle...
Thailand was invaded amphibiously at the neck of the Malay Peninsula. Bangkok was bombed. After five and a half hours' resistance, the Siamese gave up. They knew their cause was hopeless, since what little equipment their 100,000 soldiers had was second-rate Japanese stuff...
...only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present moment as appropriate for a tremendous act of national harakiri...