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...Major General (ret.) William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 70, Medal-of-Honor-winning commander of the Fighting 69th in World War I and head of the OSS in World War II. In Thailand, Donovan's OSS performed some of its greatest feats. Working with Japanese-appointed Regent Pridi Banomyong in what has been called "the greatest doublecross in history." OSS operatives built up a resistance movement under the conquerors' noses...
...services has made even less progress in Siam than in the U.S. In the two decades since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, political control has oscillated violently between the champions of either its army or its navy. The last successful Siamese coup in 1947 jolted navy-backed Premier Pridhi Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner on the warship Sri Ayuthia in the harbor...
...hierarchy of Siamese princes and politicians on the one hand, and the movers & shakers of the Lilliputian empire on the other, is almost irresistible. There is a close parallelism between Phibun Songgram, in-&-outer and erstwhile Jap collaborator, and Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, whose undying enmity Gulliver incurred; between Pridhi Banomyong and Reldresal, Lilliputian Secretary for Private Affairs, friend and champion of the Man-Mountain; and between Siamese princes of the blood such as Prince Chumphot and the Frelock brothers, who were entrusted with the diplomatic mission into Gulliver's pockets...
Westernization was brought to Siam largely by her own people who went abroad to study. In the 19203 a group of young Siamese revolutionists formed in Paris' Left Bank cafes. Two of them were Pridhi Banomyong and Phibun Songgram, who were to become rivals and to alternate in control of modern Siam. The revolutionists returned in 1932 to stage a coup which made Siam a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok ceased to be the last absolute monarch left in the world...
Meanwhile Rival Pridi Banomyong's man, Premier Thamrong-Nawasawat, failed to steer Siam off the postwar economic rocks. "Pridi Banomyong has soft ears," said the Siamese; self-seekers seemed able to talk him into anything. The cost of living doubled. Official corruption was almost universal...