Word: siam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are White Thais (whose women wear mostly white), Black Thais (who wear black), and, more recently, Red Thais (from the political colors they wear), who have their own autonomous administration in southern Yunnan (Red China). But Thais, of one color or another, inhabit Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Siam and northern Burma. In Laos the Communists have already set up their own puppet government (see above), but Communist propaganda speaks of "liberating" the Thai people as a whole and establishing among them a "Free Asian Republic...
...itinerary: Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Siam, India (where he spent two weeks at the Lucknow meetings of he World Council of Churches), Egypt, then down the east coast of Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Rhodesia) to Johannesburg and up the west coast (the Belgian and French Congos, the Cameroons, Nigeria, the Gold Coast...
...heavily wooded island named Phuquoc in the Gulf of Siam live 25,000 trim, tautly disciplined Chinese soldiers, who drill every day with wooden guns and wait for something to happen. They are Nationalist China's "forgotten army," the survivors of a once-beaten mass which was pushed out of Yunnan Province in the final days of the Chinese Communist victory, and made its way through rough mountain country into French Indo-China. There, three years ago, they were disarmed and interned by the French...
Reischauer agreed that recent hush-hush talks between political leaders of South Korea, Nationalist China and Japan may well foreshadow an Asian economic pact. Also included might be Siam, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, he indicated...
Gertrude Lawrence's last hit was The King and I, a return to her first love, the musical. As Mrs. Anna Leonowens, tutor to the children of the King of Siam, she lived her part so intensely that she signed her personal letters "Mrs. Anna." Last month Gertrude was admitted to New York Hospital for treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence...