Word: thai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thai Buddhism has something in common with Japanese Buddhism. If we Japanese can control and guide [the Thai] priests, then we shall not have difficulty leading Thailand religiously...
...command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near the Thailand border, routed a force of 400 Jap foot and horse soldiers south of Toungoo. Said General Stilwell...
...elite divisions and equipped with rifles, bayonets, hand grenades, light & heavy machine guns, trench mortars and automatic pistols. Many of them were already in action on the Salween front. New arrivals strung out protectively along the Burma Road north of Lashio or skirmished with the Jap along the Thai border...
...Thai Forced to Fight...
Nikrohananda refuted the idea that Thailand had been playing ball with the Japanese before the war. The Indo-Chinese territory that his country claimed after the fall of France would have bolstered Thai defenses, he claimed. Any concessions that were given to the Japanese in that period were extorted at the point of the award...