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...found India and Pakistan, suspicious of the U.S., facing each other with explosive hate. If war broke out there, "the fat would be in the fire." Burma, he found, lived in fear of what could happen on her frontier zone. Siam (see cover), with 3,000,000 Chinese, was "more like a willow than...
...said a high official of the Siamese court. "Fewer can identify Harry Truman. But everybody, right out to the most remote borders of the nation, knows about the King." Last week, for the first time in almost four years, the Siamese got a glimpse of their King, and Siam's 18 million cheerful, childlike citizens prepared to make the most...
Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...
...impact surrounded Sherry en route. Americans, in and out of uniform, were everywhere. The native populations showed great interest in American affairs and American thinking. English is now in such general use that, although his work included detailed study and negotiation, Sherry never once needed an interpreter. Even in Siam English is compulsory in the schools and many young Siamese aim to complete their education in the States...
...Bangkok last week, Marshal Phibun Songgram's cabinet fretted and worried over Ho Chi Minh. Strongman Songgram urged immediate recognition of Bao Dai, thereby putting Siam firmly in the anti-Communist camp. Foreign Minister Phot Sarasin objected. The time, he said, was not yet ripe to line up openly against Ho Chi Minh. Some 30,000 Indo-Chinese Red guerrillas had taken refuge from the French army just inside the Siamese border. The unwarlike Bangkok government had no defense against a force so potentially dangerous. The cabinet finally agreed not to recognize...