Word: thai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hear No Evil. Iron-jawed Max Bishop, in his first ambassadorial post, sees Thailand taking the disastrous course of China in the early '40s, and regards every criticism of the Thai government as Communist inspired. While the Russians and the Chinese woo Southeast Asia with honeyed words, Bishop's inflexible, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude grates on the easygoing, polite Thais. In his rush to ingratiate himself with Pibul (who smilingly referred to him recently as "my ambassador"), Bishop has ignored or antagonized regular foreign-office channels...
Time and again he has publicly ridiculed his staff before other Western and Thai officials. After a New York Times correspondent wrote several articles critical of the Thai regime, Bishop ordered staff members to submit written reports of what they had said to the correspondent...
...spurting from the lower floors of the all but empty building. He raced to turn in an alarm, but by the time the firemen arrived the whole place was ablaze. Cut off from escape by the collapse of a wooden staircase, the visiting music professor was burned to death. Thai police could not prove that the building had been purposely set afire; in fact, the local Chinese community found in the event new reason for saying nothing...
...plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai language papers mentioned his visit...
...European NATO standards it was a small show, but by the third day, when some 28,000 men of six nations (France and Pakistan sent only observers) marched in colorful parade through Bangkok's streets, Thai officials felt that "Operation Firm Link" had shown their people that SEATO is much more than a "paper tiger...