Word: pridhi
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...
...editor of Bangkok's Prajatipatai (Democrat) was swiftly arrested for suggesting the immediate resignation of Pridhi. An investigation, he wrote, should be made under a government not responsible for what happened. A third editor rose to new heights of personal journalism by offering his own head for conclusive shooting tests...