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KIRK DOUGLAS

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"CHAMPION"

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MARILYN MAXWELL ARTHOI KENNEDY

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CAPTAIN CHINA

A trouble ship, a mutinous

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starring JOHN

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GAIL

RUSSELL

JEFFREY

LYNN

LON

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..EDGAR

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MICHAEL

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ROSENT ARMSTRONG

Directed by Lewis

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1030.

PIBUL KEY FIGURE IN ANTI-COMMUNIST POLICY OF BANGKOK

Bangkok, April 14,

By. his decision to direct his Government to recognise the newly-indepon- dont non-Communist regimes of Vietnam, Cambódia and Laos, Mar- shal Luang Pibul Songkram, the Thai Prime Minister, has committed Thailand to supporting Western-sponsored diplomacy in opposition to Communist expansion in Asia.

His decision, which caused some direct Cabinet opposition and a measure

of public doubt in Thailand, has focussed Western attention on the.. Marshal's future prospects as a Government leader.

Thal

O!

Within the framework of polley has gained unqualled | sored by a military coup d'etai

diplomatic approval party. Thailand's constitutional de- Western

political opponents mocracy, the Prime Minister which could be reasonably ex-

pected to win 'British and Ameri Marsha! Pibul see his history ra is regarded as having more can military aid for Thailand if ther than in his personality a than ever become the key her alignment with Western anti- target for opposition. person in a highly person- Communist forces involved this history tenis.. to confirm. their argument that he has, by his alised political machine.

His final declaration of positive anti-Communism as the basis of Thalland's foreign policy appears Inevitably to have linked the chances of survival of that policy with the Marshal's spects of

in

Leaders of

Matern

pro-

patic

missions in Bangkok seem agreed Marshal Pibul'* initiation of

that

nation in war,

Adverse influences

As against those fuctors in his favour, there appear to be the following induences capable of hindering the future development of Marshal Pibul's pro-Western diplomacy.

inal absolute alignment with the pro-Western group of powers, re- turned to the starting point of circular adventure in forelgo politics.

2. In directing the Goverti- In addition to the Opposition.

ment's recognition of the non- a considerable section of compara Communist regimes in Indo-tively neutrat Thai opinion make Chian, the Prime Minister broke reservations regarding the new with Thailand's long-standing

Aslan the routing to their suspicion of end

neutrality in Aslan tradition of

essential positiviam in it. Involved affairs. His direction

Those who

this view support overr

Once counsel· argue that, while to Western' ob- overruling Foreign ters, including the then Foreign servers Use

the fact of once having

Young people who couldn't care less

"Ghaffleld, April 13,

A group of Bermude youth londers vialting Britain de. clared Anday that young paɔ- pla in Sheffield and Bermuda are strikingly ''similar-both have the "couldn't oara loss" attitude.

for

J. G. Nichols, leader of the Bermuda youth group which left here today by air Washington, sald; "The big problem in Sheffield is the same as in Bermuda-how to Inspire young people to do something for others."—Unit> ed Prese.

TEXAS CITY DISASTER ECHO

Houston, Text, April 13. The United States Govern- ment fuces possible, law-suit damages of $200,000,000 follow- ing a Federal judge's ruling here today that it was at faufi in the 1047 Texas City disaster which took 512 lives.

Mr. T. M. Kennerly, the Judge, ruled that 8,485 parties which hadt sted for this sum in damage: are entitled to' judgment as a result of the waterfront explosions which almost wrecked Техаз

people were injured.

In Washington, the Assistant Attorney-General, Mr. H. Graham Morison, said that the Govern- nens inminely against the decision immediately.

Thai view Opponents emphasise that the -The Prime Minister's own | Premier, who began as a positivist political development to the point in pan-Asianism of the Japanese a pro-Western approach to the of f being a positivist in foreign expansionist model, experienced external Communist problem has Involved three important depar-policy has been gradual, and ob- the condemnation of the Thai

by hesitancy and people before he had the oppor vlously attended tures from Thailand's previous

misgivings, as recently as last tunity to return to power and de position in Aslan affalis.

January. It seems likely that velop what has now become his He has committed Thallund the rate of his conversion to posi-second positive policy: pro-West-City three years ago. Sume 3,000 to a positive foreign policy which

tivism has out-stripped that of ern and anti-Communist diplo is in liself a reversal of the na

many

of his followers.

macy in Asia. tion's traditional instinct towards neutrality in all regional crises short of war: charlie has an ind's

of survival as an pendent nation largely under the protective cover of future West- ern political and military move designed to

retard and contain Astuu Communist expansion.

3.-He has told the Thal peo-placed him in advance of one reduce a personality public

in ple survival through follow- vocal bloc of political opinion.

that

Congress would have to mako favour in

In Thailand,

fact of ing a diplomatic middle way be-

a special appropriation to meet 3--Being the most prominent once previously having

having propound-

amounts tween Communist and Western personality in his personalised led an ill-fated policy of post-wever clinis d democratic

“ទ Ideologles

political

he machine, stands vism

tends to be a matter or were approved. Reuter. practicable.

Vulnerable to a

latent mass of more importance to many poli opposition should the possible tically-minded Thals, failure of the new Indo-China re- | One Thai Royalist of compura-

to survive place him in the tively neutral opinion summed up. All three of theas implications position of being regarded by his the problem in these words: are causing Western observers people as the instigator of a poli- hare to watch with renewed clel misadventure. Interest tho Prime Minister's moves to consolidale national support for his policy.

Dominant leader

$121-

In support of his stand 33 3 protagonist of pro-Western and anti-Communist diplorency. Mar- shal Pibul appears to have th following factors in his

favour: 1.-Within the Army-sponsored regime. governing Thailand he re- Inains the most dominant in dividual personality. To date there appears to

of

thu

evel

The litigation - Involves

action largest. dantages brought ugalist the Government.

Minister, his stand has thus been pro-Japanese would tend to If the Government lost finally.

4.The tenuous wild of con- stitutional democracy In That- land leaves the Prime Minister's military-supported party ex- posed th just that kind of coup d'etat which installed it 17 power in November, 1947.

The

Pibul's coreer

he capacitycess of Thailand's new

equivalent appent

personality upon whose future domestic success, the sue- foreign of policy so much depends, is the replacing him as Prime Minister. most important individual ไป -

2. He

fluence in the nation's affairs 10- commands, within governing group, the allegiance of day.

politico-mill- Maralini Pibul is a short, smil

the

"The Marshal once trundled the Kingdom on to the Japanese band-wagon. That collapsed

and with it the Marshal. Much of the ensuing public scorn was based on the people's distrust

of a leader

who had

Staked everything on one cause--and lost everything on it.

"Now, nine years later, the Marshal has signed up the nation. with a group of Asiatle territories which may sink or swim accord- ing to whether or not. British and American armed backing can stop the Communist advances in Indo- China,

"It is not the nature of the band-wagon, but the idea of being on any band-wagon, which makes

the most Importble of directing | ing, quietly-spoken person aged the people of Thailand think twice

Lary. leaders

at least

nl

one army of troops and an 52. He has un unruffled tem increasingly powerful poll

police force perament, nerveless hands and

unquestioned social charm.

in the defence of the Government in the event of a possible

-d'etat attempt- to overthrow-It

He tends to belie his own his- tory as first-an-anti-monarchist

3. He has the tradition of a revolutionary in the early thirties decade of intermittent leadership and then a supporter of Japanese- of modern Thai nationaliam to in-inspired pan-Astonism, fluence publie opinion in favour After his wartime political of relying upon the essential eclipse and brief post-war impri- wisdom of his decisions.

sonment at the hands of pro- 4-He has demonstrated that | Allied forces in Thailand, the his most recent stand on foreign | Marshal staged a revival spon-

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RUSSIANS DELAY BERLIN TRAINS

Berlin, April 13. United States officials report that two U.S. military trains—one going from Berlin to Frankfurt, the other coming the other way were delayed by the Russians during

the

night

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