Word: pibulsonggram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly justified, but you are right in saying that we have a strong leader in Sarit Thanarat, and we really need one. The surrender to Japan in World War II did not have the consent of the majority of the people of Thailand. It came from the dictator [Pibulsonggram] who ruled the country at that time. You should have mentioned how admirably the brave Thai soldiers and the serious-minded Thai boy scouts sacrificed their blood in fighting the enemy in Southern Thailand until the dictator appealed for a ceasefire. You attributed the country's present achievement...
...army boss who had once shocked a dinner party at a Western embassy by slapping a bottle of cognac on the table and swigging from it all evening, explaining that his host's liquor was lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom. In La Guardia fashion, he roams the streets, checking on police and garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings on the street...
Thailand's ex-Premier P. Pibulsonggram, 63, onetime dictatorial Thai field marshal who was booted from power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...