Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon found that he could slip through bits of military information useful to the British, American and Dutch tigers. When he boasted of mighty naval installations at Semarang, the Japanese were pleased. So were the British; their bombers thoroughly blasted Semarang. Later Thamboe bragged about vast rice stores at Bangkok; B-29s blew them...
...sprawling, marble-floored houses are occupied by British officers (in unreclaimed cities, by Indonesians). An estimated 200,000 Dutch and Indo-Europeans remain in Java, many of them still living in former Japanese "hell camps"; 17,000 evacuees are in crowded, poorly supplied camps in Singapore, 11,000 in Bangkok. Some 15,000 are hostages of the Indonesian rebels...
...royal figure has left the European scene. King Ananda of Thailand has just returned home, after twelve years in Switzerland, to assume his duties at Bangkok...
Patently official Washington had known that the outbreak of war was just a matter of days. Army Intelligence even intercepted a garbled message from Tokyo to Bangkok which said: "X-Day is the 8th and the day on which the notice is to be given...
...Born in Bangkok, Siam...