Word: tna
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
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