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Burton, a graduate of St. John's College in Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...
Helen Keller was feeling O.K., but Companion Polly Thompson was ill. After touring New Zealand, Australia and part of Japan, they canceled the rest of their trip (to China, Korea, Siam, India, Pakistan, Burma, and points Middle East), and booked passage home...
Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...
...Easily amused Siamese laughed & laughed when the Russians, for their headquarters, took over two "hotels" which had been the gaudiest bordellos in Siam...
...British complied. Rocket-firing Spitfires strafed guerrilla encampments in the north. Plans were made to drop incendiaries on ricefields in upper Pahang state to deprive the rebels of food. Royal Navy ships patrolled the coasts to intercept gunrunning junks from Siam and South China. More than 20,000 Malay and Gurkha troops, together with regular British units, prepared a ground sweep of the peninsula...