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...named a fascinating slate-North Viet Nam, Burma, Indonesia and Siam from Asia; Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Czechoslovakia from Europe. Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...
...Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi and fellow expatriates plotted a revolution at home. Their schemes worked out successfully in the revolution of 1932, when King Prajad-hipok signed Siam's first constitution, which Pridi wrote...
...less concerned about the possibility of a war of encounter. Its worry, as hinted by Dulles, is the thought of what happens if non-Communist Asians lose heart and collapse into Communism. Then, indeed, there might be a general conflict, with the Western powers attempting to rescue Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Burma and even Japan. Quemoy and Matsu have one meaning in the U.S. nightmare, another in the British nightmare. Dulles' main task at the Manila Pact conference in Bangkok this week will be to state the Asian danger in terms that will bring Britain and other participating nations...
...army in the world," which it says it will aim to build? Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful co-existence and noninterference...
Pridi the Nationalist. Thailand (Siam) has little in common with Indo-China; it has been independent since the late 18th century (except for the Japanese occupation in World War II), and is therefore free from Indo-China's colonial handicap...