Word: pibulsonggram
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Diplomatic Trip. Pibulsonggram also abolished press censorship. This enabled Bangkok newspapers to report that Pao's police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...
...Pibulsonggram moved swiftly, in the new democratic fashion. With a big smile, he summoned Pao and dispatched him in his capacity as deputy finance minister, to Washington to see about a new U.S. loan. The plane was hardly off the ground before the Premier began separating Pao and his relatives from their extra jobs and it had hardly landed in the U.S. before Pibulsonggram made himself interior minister and promised to stop opium smuggling...
...days tension ran high in Bangkok. At one point, all Pao's men and their families lived under 24-hour armed surveillance by the army, but it soon became evident that Pibulsonggram was only restraining, and not destroying, his friend Pao. Quiet returned to Bangkok. So last week, did Police Chief Pao. From the airport he rushed home for a long chat with his latest astrologer...
...weekly press conference, Pibulsonggram was asked if there was bad blood between the Premier and the police chief. Certainly not. said the Premier with a gentle smile. "I told him: 'We are going the democracy way now.' He answered: 'If you go democracy, I go along...
...valuable Coca-Cola concession, long held by Pibulsonggram's own son-in-law, the deputy foreign minister...