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...nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Flight of the Thunderbird | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...many ways it was Pibul more than any other Thai leader who built modern Thailand. He is a pensive sort of man, a firm-believer in the predictions of his personal astrologers, and in recent years has indicated often that he would like to retire. But, he would say, "there are only three ways to remove a dictator: by exile, jail or burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Flight of the Thunderbird | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Time of Decision. Last week Pibul achieved exile. With him into discard, but in a different direction, went the more powerful of his two oldest and closest political cronies, Police Chief General Phao Sriyanond. His second longtime crony, Army Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, stayed on in Bangkok, comfortably ensconced as the new political leader of Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Flight of the Thunderbird | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Resigning Game. Premier Pibul thought this an excellent suggestion-and appointed Simple Soldier Sarit to his Cabinet as Defense Minister. Then he ordered all Cabinet ministers to forsake their commercial interests. Marshal Sarit and some of his supporters resigned both their political posts and-in theory at least-their positions in private enterprises. General Phao resigned from his various directorships, but held firmly to his position as police chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The Inside Man | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

These maneuvers troubled Pibul, because Sarit's resignation was followed by so many resignations from the National Assembly that it left the government's majority in doubt. Sarit & Co. insisted they would not cooperate with Pibul unless Phao resigned as police chief. At week's end, General Phao did just that, but remained on as Minister of Interior. This pleased everyone; it also served to strengthen a growing conviction that Premier Pibul, though his troubles with Marshal Sarit were far from over, was still pretty firmly in control, as he has been for 15 of the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The Inside Man | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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