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With Communist pressure rising in neighboring Indo-China U.S. and Siamese officials at Bangkok last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
...week's end the first shipments of arms and supplies had left for Siam...
...farm." For four years before Korea, his friend told him, Russia had been pulling the biggest bluff in history. In Korea, the Russian officer said, the U.S.S.R. had lost not only face, but great stores of military equipment which it had hoped to use again in Indo-China and Siam. The Kremlin had also made some very bad mistakes in Europe. "Every one-legged German," said the Russian lugubriously, "would carry a gun against...
Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
Died. Saw Ba U Gyi, 46, leader of Burma's Karen rebels; trapped and shot by government soldiers; in a Burmese village near the Siam border (see WAR IN ASIA...