Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan worked out at Calcutta called for simultaneous revolts in Burma and Malaya. Three months after the outbreak of the Malayan revolt, Indonesia's Communists were to strike. As coordination center for the drive a 26-man Soviet Legation, largest in Southeast Asia, was set up in Bangkok...
...moonlit night two weeks ago when a friend whispered warning words in his ear. The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery. Meanwhile Phibun's military friends, using Siam's 20 or so ancient little Swedish and Japanese tanks and armored cars, took over Bangkok. Phibun, as new Supreme Commander of Siamese Forces, entered the Defense Ministry on the shoulders of cheering soldiery. Many officers prostrated themselves in homage...
Kite Flying Resumed. Last spring Phibun entered Bangkok's municipal kite flying contest. To Siamese, this was a perfectly plain sign that he was coming out of political retirement. His personal astrologer, Chalaem, had found that Phibun's stars indicated rising power from March 26 onward. Phibun opened his pine-shaded bungalow in Bangkok's suburbs. There he told the press: "I was fed up with retirement, so I bought kites. But kite flying is not so interesting as politics. ... I am forming a new party with the slogan, 'Right Is Might...
...subways, was awarded the Order of Lenin. The trolleys were presented with the Order of the Red Banner, while the Stalin Water Supply Station received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class. Pilgrims from all over Russia and foreign emissaries from such diverse capitals as Rome and Bangkok were on hand. From all over Russia came birthday presents to the revered capital-gleaming new trolleys, carloads of cabbages, carrots, tomatoes and flour, which were sold in the street at unusually low prices...
Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...