Word: thailander
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Pretty Maria Garland of Peru was dressed in a costume of the ancient Incas. Usni Pramoj of Thailand was a small but elegant figure in silken plus fours. Starlet of the day was seven-year-old, barefoot, pinafored Liana De Bayle, daughter of the Nicaraguan Minister, and a veteran of international broadcasts. Liana recited a rhymed story of "a little [Nicaraguan] girl I think you know," concluded: "I wonder if you now suspect this little Nicaraguan girl...
...peasants of Thailand, comprising 80% of the country's population, are well-built, short-statured, brown-skinned, good-natured men, chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
...Majesty and his boss talked of Japanese-incited demonstrations in Bangkok demanding the "return" of a slice of Cambodian territory to Thailand; of Vichy's rejection of official Tnaï claims to that and some other territory; of renewed demands. They decided Thailand had little basis for these demands except the prostration of France. Thailand cited a secret treaty concluded between the monarchs of Cambodia and Siam in 1863 granting Siam certain concessions-on which, however, Siam later officially backed down under French pressure. The case of Thailand was neither more nor less justifiable than that of France when...
...topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression of an Eastern toyland. This week Prime Minister Luang Bipul Songgram said: "If force is inevitable, war will be waged...