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...India, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Siam, British Pacific Islands, French Pacific Islands, Guam, Java, The Netherlands Indies, Philippines, Samoa and Sumatra...
...morning this week, just before noon, a servant entered the palace bed room of King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old constitutional monarch of Siam, and found the king's lifeless body. There was a bullet wound over his left eye, and a pistol lay at his left side. Courtiers who sniffed foul play remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament...
Swinging to a broader condemnation he spoke next of tragic circumvention of the Atlantic Charter in China, Indonesia, India and in Siam. He summed up his condemnation of international failure in the Far East "we cannot, with any conscience, continue to prevent others from taking the very steps which we ourselves have taken. Placing the responsibility for what is happening is a minor problem. It lies perhaps with individuals, with school curricula that have almost wholly disregarded the Far East, or perhaps with a press that has failed to provide an objective basis for intelligent opinion on foreign policy...
...Confirmed the nominations of Careermen 1) Joseph Flack as Ambassador to Bolivia, 2) J. Rives Child as Minister to Saudi Arabia, 3) Edwin F. Stanton as Minister to Siam...
Press freedom is one of the main topics of the constitutional debates in the Assembly this week. The very bright press life of the capital of Siam is demonstrated by the murder of the editor of the Chinese paper Kwaseng with his wife, mother and brother. It is alleged that the murdered editor instigated the murder of four labor leaders. Kwaseng heavily attacked the Communists. This murder is typical of the transfer of the trouble in China between the Communists and the Kuomintang to foreign Chinese. The editor and subeditor of Basarab were arrested for action endangering law and order...