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...Communists even had their candidate for the job of leading the new conquest. The man: Pridi Phanomyong, a 52-year-old Thai scholar who was respected among Thai nationalists in the manner that Ho Chi Minh was once respected in Indo-China. "For many," said the Bangkok Post, ". . . it must be an uncomfortable awakening...
Pridi the Communist. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, Red China introduced Pridi as "Public Leader of Thailand." Pridi posed carefully as a genuine Thai nationalist, urging Thais never to serve as "cannon fodder for imperialism," but instead to "wage a struggle" against the U.S. "Although the forces of peace have achieved a tremendous victory in restoring peace in Indo-China," cried Pridi, "U.S. imperialists and the Thai reactionary government are still lording it . . . They are bent on using Thailand as a base for aggression...
Next day Moscow put out a blast against Thailand's "venal, corrupt, half-Fascist" government. From Washington came gloomy predictions of the next Red move: to campaign for an "Autonomous Thai Federation," which is already organized among the Thais who live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
...chief of Thailand's army, announced that the U.S. had agreed to step up its military aid to his country. Among the items promised: more tanks, trucks, artillery, small arms, ammunition and other equipment; 25 jet aircraft; a $3,000,000, 297-mile military road; training of more Thai officers in the U.S.; enlargement of the 200-man U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand. For his part, bulky General Srisdi prepared to double the number of officers and noncoms in training, introduce a one-year officer's training program to supplement the present five-year curriculum, and increase...
...believed to protect the Laotians from their enemies. Laos has been invaded by Tibetans, Mongols, Javanese Annamites, Indians, Chinese, Frenchmen and Khmers, but the craggy, mountainous state has survived with its ethnic unity just about intact. More than two-thirds of Its people are Laotians and related Thais. Its language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their own purely administrative capital at Vientiane 130 miles from Luang Prabang. Since 1904 the French have ruled through one venerable monarch, King Sisavang...