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...century ago, Abraham Lincoln received a letter from Anna's King of Siam offering a gift of elephants to "bear burdens and travel through uncleared woods and matted jungles where no carriage and cart roads have yet been made." The beasts might have served well in the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness, but Lincoln politely declined the offer. The sentiment, however, was not forgotten...
...country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World War II lay not so much with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD...
...firms is headed by San Francisco-born Lewis Cykman, 52, who came to Bangkok to make ice cream, instead went into the silk trade, expanded with financial help from the wife of the late Prime Minister Sarit. Though she has dropped out, Cykman's Star of Siam is now worth about $500,000. His plant works two shifts daily, weaving silks for his four Bangkok stores, three foreign branches and his busy export trade. Next Cykman intends to sell public shares to help finance a 100-loom weaving plant in northeast Thailand...
...grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked getting a balisong (switchblade) between his ribs...
...Since it has also been said that the trees may be oriental planes, brought here in 1894," Bernays said, he has also written to the Embassy of Thailand for an assessment of the Mem Drive trees' identity. Siam has often been regarded as the home of the oriental plane, he said...