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...encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down the cost of living (in one month alone the index fell 12.7 points). Fortnight ago he banned all imports from Communist China. Few Thailanders seem disturbed by Sarit's end of the parliamentary regime. "Hell," said one Thai recently, "we are saving $750,000 a year in salaries alone. We used to pay members of Parliament that to steal us blind...
...before he left, he thoughtfully put aside funds-things are like that in Thailand-for Berrigan to keep going until he could scrape together enough money to buy control of the World for himself. Today Berrigan is such a national institution that diplomats phone him openly for guidance, and Thai officials consult him on politics- foreign and domestic. What is more, by his wit and wits, Editor Berrigan has turned his World into one of the genuinely cultured pearls of the East...
Ploy & Counterploy. Publishing an English-language paper in Thailand, Berrigan frequently has to carry the World, Atlas-like, on his back. His 43 Thai compositors handset every word of the ten-page paper, and since they speak no English, regularly speckle the World with gaudy and sometimes bawdy typos. His general manager is a converted taxi driver; his star photographer was once his houseboy. Worst of all. most of Berrigan's Thai reporters cannot write English. After they cover a story, Berrigan has to debrief them in a game of delicate ploy and diffident counterploy. Sample...
...ignoring a watch ("We sit here thinking we have plenty of time because the sun is where it is, and the shadow of our pencil is falling at the plenty-of-time angle"). Occasionally Berrigan forgoes his humor, reports with fascination on subjects like dawn coming to a Thai village: "In the quiet hour before the sun bursts above the surrounding trees, and the mystery is burned from the sky, the villager is closer to his God than when he kneels in the temple...
...with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train out of the country, and a sympathetic Thai captain cleared his papers at the Chinese border. Berrigan has never forgotten that the Thais saved him from a prison camp...