Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thai towns of Prachinburi, Aranya. Military communiqués reported fierce engagements in the borderland forests, casualties mounting as high as 600 in a single clash. Both sides claimed victory, but after four days of fighting the French authorities admitted that their troops had retreated 50 miles, and Bangkok announced that the Thai flag had been raised over Cambodia...
...Bangkok, a communique by Thailand's High Command gave out that Siamese forces had repelled an invasion by 24 French guerrillas mounted on two elephants, a bicycle, three horses...
...short-statured, brown-skinned, good-natured men, chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced...
...Thailand decided to demand this strip of land, to close the gap in the barrier. Because she went to work on Indo-China to do this, the outside world got the impression that Thailand was aiding Japan, was in fact already a mere tool of Japan. In the end, Bangkok might become a little Vichy but this time Thailand was trying to aid Thailand before it was too late...
Diesel was plagued by business troubles almost all his life, but in 1913 things were going fairly well. The Selandia, first big ocean-going ship powered by Diesels, had voyaged from Copenhagen to Bangkok and back. Herr & Frau Diesel still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel...