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...Died. Khuang Aphaiwong, 66, founder of Thailand's Democrat Party and three times Premier; of cancer; in Bangkok. After joining with Pridi Phano-myong in the 1932 coup d'état that established a constitutional monarchy, Khuang championed economic reforms and, as Premier during the turbulent years from 1944 to 1948, urged pro-Western policies before he himself was overthrown by a military coup...
Last week, as an estimated 5,000,000 Thais trooped to the polls, Bangkok was a Jersey City in Technicolor. Charges of fire-carding, parachuting and hooliganism echoed and re-echoed. "They're cheating plenty," complained Democrat Nai Khuang, angrily waving what he said were government-doctored ballots. "I deny everything," retorted Air Force Marshal Feun Ronapakart...
...this heady new atmosphere political machines sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, and in no time at all 23 parties had named 965 candidates. Most formidable of the opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...only did Pibul lead all other candidates in Bangkok, but the sole woman candidate elected turned out to be his wife, Lady Laiad. True enough, two of Pibul's ministers were defeated and at least 26 seats had fallen to Nai Khuang and his Democrats, but at week's end, with 135 seats accounted for, Pibul's men had won 77-more than enough to assure the Premier control of even the free half of Parliament...
Sulks & Sabre Jets. No one was happy. The Premier, disappointed in his hopes for "a landslide like Eisenhower's," retired to the seashore in a pet. Nai Khuang and his fellow Democrats, egged on by Redlining leftists (who got only nine seats). declared that they had been defrauded, and demanded nullification of the Bangkok election. Crowds of protesters began to mass on the streets...
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