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Royal Progressive. The King was a believer in progress. He even let his wives leave the harem occasionally to go to a cremation. Twice a week, at midnight, the King held a secret council of the San Luang, the Royal Inquisition. This nocturnal Gestapo kept spies in all influential households, kidnapped subjects. It was dreaded. Its members communicated with each other by a stealthy, warning tapping...
...years ago this month, Premier Luang Pitul Songgram sideslipped tiny Thailand into war with Great Britain and the U.S. The excuse: the R.A.F. had bombed Bangkok. The reason: Japan looked like a sure winner...
Last week, for the first time, Major General Claire L. Chennault's China-based Liberators thundered over the pagodaed Siamese capital. They bombed railroad yards, an airdrome, started fires visible 60 miles away. Bleated Luang Pitul: the attack on "a small nation like Thailand . . . was just as easy as going to the golf course. It is impossible for such an enemy to attain victory. In addition, America will be punished severely by Providence...
...specific missions. No capital is invested in the outer zone. The cream is simply skimmed by persuasion or force. Throughout the outer zone an inextricable web of legal ownership is being developed, while on the surface autonomy is apparently maintained-as with the Vargas regime in the Philippines, the Luang Pitul Songgram government in Thailand, the surviving Decoux governorship in Indo-China...
...Siam's Premier Luang Pitul Songgram (pronounced Lwong Peboon Song-kram) was proving a capper, zealous little quisling. Japanese occupation forces were careful to remember that it is against Siamese custom to pat children on the head. But raging floods had driven thousands of Siamese from their homes, destroyed half the rice crop, brought on a famine which was increased by the shipping shortage. The Japanese felt it necessary to deny, by radio, that they were responsible for the drenching skies and swollen rivers...