Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation," cabled TIME'S censor-shy Bangkok correspondent last week, "was profoundly shocked by the doctor's verdict, proving the untrustworthiness of official statements regarding a most important matter...
...sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...
Last April a U.S. correspondent in Bangkok, after trying vainly for an interview with Ananda, concluded that he was more or less a prisoner of the politicians. What ever the real cause of his death, Ananda is out of prison...
TIME last week received from its Bangkok correspondent the following rather sinister cable...
...terrible crime wave is now raging in Siam," cabled TIME'S Bangkok correspondent last week. "It is no wonder that King Ananda is taking a special interest...