Word: thailander
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...needs a great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
...Indies; Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said it was not a non-aggression treaty, a type Japan considered unsuitable "in the light of recent examples." Japanese feelers for U. S. appeasement began to get support at least in the U. S. press; Suma dryly remarked: "Good things can never come too late." Toward...
...Pacific last week lay the U. S. battle fleet, its maneuvers completed, its next job not yet laid out. Beyond the battle fleet and across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...
...Nominated Hugh Gladney Grant, of Alabama Minister to Thailand (Siam...
Royal sportsmen and sportswomen skated on well-frozen ice in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland (see cuts). King Ananda, 14, monarch of Thailand (formerly Siam), played shinny with his brother, Prince Pumipol, on a Swiss lake. On a canal in The Hague, Princess Juliana wobbled on old-fangled Dutch curl-tipped skates with the Baroness Van Asbeck. Out on the pool before Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm slid Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of the Swedish Crown Prince, with his sprawling little daughters, Princesses Margaretha and Birgitta...