Word: thailanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo three days later a Thailand-French Indo-China peace treaty was signed, setting a new boundary between the two, providing that Thailand pay Indo-China 6,000,000 piasters (about $1,395,000) for 25,000 square miles of ceded territory, naming Japan as mediator in further disputes...
...little King's affairs continued to deteriorate. When World War II started, he sent his son, another Sisowath, to fight in France. Such loyalty did not prevent the mediating Japanese, in March, from breaking off a succulent chunk of his sun-broiled satrapy, handing it to hostile Thailand. Last week, at his capital Pnom-Penh, weary Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vrapong Harireach Barmintor Phou-vanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchea Tippedey died...
...chose to study the small (14 lb.), long-armed gibbon, which walks and runs on the ground "with greater ease than any other primate except man," whose head, like man's, "combines a fairly large brain part with a relatively small face." In the forests of northwest Siam (Thailand) toward the Burma Road, Psychologist Carpenter spent four months in 1937 crouching in the bushes, watching the antics of gibbons in the trees, taking many movies and a few reluctant pot shots with his rifle. It was a psychological study that in effect skipped back 30,000,000 years through...
London said the Vichy convoy had been known to carry "important war materials destined for Germany," including a cargo of rubber from Thailand. Vichy said its ships were taking nothing but food (rice, barley, sugar, etc.) from one overseas French port to another, called the British riposte to shellfire an act of "unjustifiable aggression...
From the first it was a war in which neither side stood to gain. The French, with their hands tied to the Axis, could hope only to lose as little as possible; while Thailand, easily egged into the war by Japan, could hardly hope to control whatever it won. Only likely winner was Japan, whose sword-rattling, fleet-maneuvering "mediation'' set all the Orient abuzz, and who will presumably dominate any areas ceded to Thailand...