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Japanese strategy was first to seize the estuaries. The invaders drove from Siam into extreme Lower Burma, and then around the Gulf of Martaban to ruined, abandoned Rangoon...
...Conrad Helfrich, the war with Japan really began last July. When the Japanese sent warships into the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, he saw that they were after bases in Siam and Indo-China, and he begged his Government to let him attack forthwith. The Indies Government was more than half-willing, but after consultations with Washington and London the answer to Admiral Helfrich was: "No." He took his orders, but grumbled a warning: "If we give them time to prepare bases in Siam, they will be ready to attack Singapore in half a year...
...Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful figure of a woman I have ever seen in my life." This...
Thailand has a longer record of friendship for the United States than any other Far Eastern nation, he pointed out. A treaty was made with Siam in 1888, antedating the American treaty with China by 10 years and that with Japan by 20 years...
...Bangkok, Thailand [Siam], Nov. 13, 1940 (U.P.)-Appointment of Premier Major General Luang Pitul Songgram as supreme commander of the armed forces of Thailand, effective immediately, by King Ananda Mahidol was announced today by the Council of the Regency...