Word: phanomyong
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Communists even had their candidate for the job of leading the new conquest. The man: Pridi Phanomyong, a 52-year-old Thai scholar who was respected among Thai nationalists in the manner that Ho Chi Minh was once respected in Indo-China. "For many," said the Bangkok Post, ". . . it must be an uncomfortable awakening...
Peking's chosen instrument, Pridi Phanomyong, is of notably nationalist-not Communist-background. In 1932 he helped Phibun set up Thailand's popular constitutional monarchy. He was named rector of Bangkok's respected University of Moral and Political Sciences. During World War II, Pridi led Thailand's underground resistance against the Japanese while Phibun was comfortably presiding over his country's Japanese puppet government (which declared...
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