Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the agitation against the U.S. concerned old Fort McKinley on Manila's southeast outskirts. Fort McKinley, taken out of service after World War II, has been eyed by real-estate promoters who would like to subdivide it. Two years ago Attorney General Brownell rendered an opinion that the U.S. has legal title to Philippine lands bought from private owners; most of Fort McKinley was bought in this manner long before World War I. In the mouths of Filipino extremists, this claim to "title" became a nasty assertion of "sovereignty...
...struggle for the good will of Southeast Asia, the sprawling, rich kingdom of Thailand (pop. 20.3 million) is a test case in diplomatic method. Thailand has long been friendly to the United States and has benefited from generous U.S. economic and military aid. But in recent months Thailand, like many another Asian country, has been drifting toward the left...
...recent years, under a succession of able ambassadors−Ed Stanton, William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and the late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
Hear No Evil. Iron-jawed Max Bishop, in his first ambassadorial post, sees Thailand taking the disastrous course of China in the early '40s, and regards every criticism of the Thai government as Communist inspired. While the Russians and the Chinese woo Southeast Asia with honeyed words, Bishop's inflexible, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude grates on the easygoing, polite Thais. In his rush to ingratiate himself with Pibul (who smilingly referred to him recently as "my ambassador"), Bishop has ignored or antagonized regular foreign-office channels...
...shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...