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According to recent Smithsonian Bulletin 188, The Fresh-Water Fishes of Siam by the late Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Siamese fish frequently set out on overland treks. One capricious clarias batrachus, apparently bored with captivity, jumped out of its bowl, wriggled down two long corridors, was caught high-tailing it out the front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen...
...only, he added, "if I can be given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...
...intercepted messages there were numerous references to possible points where hostilities might break out: Indo-China, Siam, new theaters in China. There were only a few slight hints that Hawaii was considered. On Nov. 29, Tokyo had cabled its consulate in Honolulu: "We have been receiving reports from you on ship movements, but in future will you also report even when there are no movements." And on Dec. 6 Honolulu cabled back to Tokyo: "The following ships were observed at anchor-nine battleships, three light cruisers, three submarine tenders, 17 destroyers, and in addition there were four light cruisers...
Born in Bangkok, Siam...
...summer and on leaves of absence, when orthodox colleagues were plugging away at research, Frank MacDonald traveled to Hawaii, to India, Siam or Siberia...