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Wells on Wheels. Spurred by the discovery of hidden Communist arms caches and reports of Red supply drops by parachute in the northeast, Premier Sarit Thanarat has begun a crash program to counteract Red influence in the area. Earmarking $300 million in development funds, he has already sent out two of a planned twelve mobile development units to drill fresh-water wells, bulldoze new roads, and dispense medical care. Under the guidance of Thailand's sharpest and most aggressive young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators...
Feeling rose between the two countries, aggravated by the fact that Thailand is always accusing Cambodia of providing jungle bases for Communist guerrillas. Last fall the two nations severed diplomatic relations after Thailand's Soldier Premier Sarit Thanarit likened Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk to a pig. In a speech, Sihanouk retorted that though he might look like a pig, Sarit was a fatter pig. If soup were made of the two leaders, sneered Sihanouk, the soup made from Sarit would taste better...
...through the transcript for 2½ months after formal arguments ended, finally found (by 9 to 3) for Cambodia. When Prince Sihanouk heard the good news, he announced that he would shave his head and maintain a thanksgiving vigil for seven days and nights. But Thailand's Marshal Sarit summoned his military commanders, ordered reinforcements to the area of the temple, which at the moment is under Thai control. Thailand even ordered its diplomats to boycott the meetings of SEATO...
Then everything suddenly dissolved in Buddhist bliss. Sarit announced to a Cabinet meeting that a battle with Cambodia would be "fulfilling an objective of the Communists," and so Thailand will go along with the Hague court decision. This, he declared, was essential "to maintain our fine reputation in international affairs." After the Cabinet meeting, he told reporters: "We speak with tears. Many ministers wept...
...business. Asked what he thought of his assignment, Battalion Commander Lieut. Colonel Harold Adams answered curtly: "When the President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit Thanarat-the first time in 600 years that the Thais have asked foreigners in to help them defend their soil. Said a Thai Cabinet minister: "Persons with old-fashioned ideas may not like having foreign troops in Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai...