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Thailand's soft-voiced but strong-willed Premier Pibulsonggram came home from a state tour of Europe and the U.S. a year and a half ago full of the wonders of democracy. Expansively he urged his countrymen to erect themselves a Hyde Park for uninhibited soapbox oratory, offered them the kite-flying ground next to the royal palace. Going his new friend Dwight Eisenhower one better, Pibul instituted weekly press conferences, forced his hapless ministers to appear and answer rude reportorial questions about their carefree handling of public funds...
...drift is in some measure caused by the currents of democracy released by Field Marshal Pibulsonggram, Thailand's strongman Premier, who was much impressed by democracy (and by presidential press conferences) on his trip to the U.S. and Europe last year. As a result of his temporary lifting of press controls, accounts of the corruption that normally flourishes in Asian regimes−opium trading, influence peddling−have been brought into the light of day by Pibul's enemies. The stories have tended to discredit, by association, the Pibulsonggram regime's longtime ally, the U.S. An American...
When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
Married. Pacharabul Pibulsonggram, 22, daughter of Thailand's Prime Minister P. Pibulsonggram; and U.S. Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ralph Perrotta, 22; at Quonset Point Naval Air Station...
...valuable Coca-Cola concession, long held by Pibulsonggram's own son-in-law, the deputy foreign minister...