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THIRD BLITZ

There is no doubt that the

RANGOON

SUMATRA:

THAI

(FORMERLY SIAM)

BANGKOK

OPOSED CAMAL

Thalland's position in relation to International politics to-day is but doubtfully understood-if under- stood at all-by those who profess to make a study of the changes and transitions that have been, and are, ting place around us. The coun- try's

in recent years have become increasingly obvious to the close observer of Thailand's affairs, and with the imminent threat of Japanese occupation and the prospect of a showdown within her borders, the time is opportune, perhaps, for n brief survey of conditions as they exist to-day in the only country in South-East Asia to maintain her in- dependence throughout the centuries, Un a few years ago Thailand than was regarded as nothing more

deventient progress and economie

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SINGAPORE

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But the statesman of of her new constitution, the British mic benefits. and French territories on her border Thailand, who had been chary of offers trom weitern were naturally caused some anxiety, accepting

different but Bangkok was quick to explain powers, apparently had that armed security was essential for views on üle question of accommoda→ tion from Tokyo, as recent loan internal security and that that was

froin Japan of ten million bahts the only purpose of the country's would show. This is a position hard armament plans. What part sub- to reconcile with Thailand's aspira- marines and aeroplanes have to play tions, but nevertheless there it is, in internal security were never ex- and that again is just the position her to plained, but what happened on the which Japan would like

must Cambodia border a few months ago, adópt, as political Influence when greatly superior numbers of necessarily follow in the wake of

•Thai acroplanes attacked Inade- financial aid. quately equipped French troops, is In support of this explanation is too fresh in the mind to need re- the recent inclination of Thailand to withdraw certain concessions which iterating.

had been granted to foreign coun With a well-trained and fully tries, (excepting Japan) thus clos- foreign exploitation

in

equipped army, a small but efficient ing the door navy and an air force which is said in her territory and reserving the within her boundaries to count well over 500 pinnes, Thal- whole area

and enterprise. land may be considered more than to Thal Industry suffelently well-equipped for the Gloring cases in point are the re- preservation of her internal secu- strictions imposed on the British and American oil and tobacco companies rity."

which virtually stran- Bangkok conscription There has been

in gled their trade and made. room for Thailand for many years. Every That products of both oil and tobacco man of 21 years is required to spend in the Thailand markets. The oil in two years in the army, except those brought crude from Manchuokue and who have passed the high school refined in Thailand, by That experts examination, who do only one year's trained in America and Japan.

There is nevertheless strong ground tellitary service. Army pay is small

that the Thallanders nasuming and the discipline strict, sofdlers be- for

SPOTLIGHT ON

THAILAND

those of the

come classes-have

under

Songgram even went so far as to ing allowed only one evening off itemselves-especially

well-educated are start the Yuvajon movement, which each week. The men

of

is based on the Hitler Youth Move- nourished, healthy and their morale Japanese Influence and that they are stand to gain a great deal from the ment, throwing the entire school is good. They are very smart on of the opinion that their country would development of closer relations with going youth of Thailand into the parade.

With a population of 15,000,000. Japan. This is very obvious from the same green-grey uniform of his

in an And Bangkok alone, bousta mare dally trained in the same way as the youth Thailand counts on being able to put general tone of the vernacular press.

the County troops and having them drilled and

than 1,000,000 men under arms

London. of Germany.

emergency. Nor is the country lack newspapers

in

or materials. equipment Popular os Bipul Songgram is, two ing

Here is an instance of the astuteness a "backwoods region," too einbrülled

she has with which Japan has woven herself In her own internal worries to be of attempts were made on his life since Apart from large stocks accummu-

he took office. Once he was shot lated during past years, any significance in world affairs.

dinner, the several armament and munition fac- into the economie life of Thailand. The climatic and geographical cond!- This was the consensus of opinion at while dressing for in most of the

progressive bullet missing his head by inches and tories, the two largest being at Bang tions of Thailand are most favourable more in

nations with the exception of

Germans are making a des- whose statesmen, saw in the Japan, crashing into the mirror before him. Sue and Bang No. Both are man- to the cultivation of cotton and rubber,

perate and terrific attempt to crush Russia before Winter.

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terrible toll of power, tanks, planes and all the other impedimenta of mo- dern warfare-n stern and dis- | W quieting reality which must in- deed cause Hitler furiously to think. Even should this third blitzkrieg against Russia achieve success, it will not mean final victory.

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For this change of atitude, even f

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the lis aged and run exclusively by Thal- and while the Thallanders nud On another occasion he and

Chinese neglected these, the Japanese were quick to seize the opportunity to family very nearly perished from landers trained abroad.

Miliary air busos have been con- explore the possibilities of cotion grow food poisoning, but were saved by

structed all over the country, the one ing la Thailand, and thus make closer prompt medical aid.

at Sathe ip is considered to be the economie co-operation between the two ACUTE NATIONALISM

favourably, and to-day certain business biggest and the best. The Bangkok Countries. Japanese experts reported The keynote of his policy is acute civil airport is also said to be con- interests in Osaka have started opera With the commencement of the

and entire self-sum vertible into a-military air bose at tions on a large scale in order to meet

the requirements of the mother coun Japanese movement, realisation also nationalisin

LEY, came to Thailand. The country was clency. Numerous Inbour lawn have a moment's notice.

Introduced to achieve this goal, been roused from its state of queroun and many of them make it almost that Thailand has even got her own Feiv people are aware of the fact apathy, and recent già stage of impossible for aliens to get work in aeroplane factories, notably llibre at Thailand pass through

In the same way in and rubber from her Thalland. For instance, no

en Don transition unprecedented in

and Bang Sue, where Munng нег

Thal La history, Throughout this who cannot speak fluent

British "Bristol Bull" and "Avro" Thalland now and an open market in Japan. Thailand has thus found a period, which first made itself felt allowed to take up manual work, engines are being turned out in large ready, buyer, and in return has per- In 1032 when a coup d'etat carried and ricksha pullers leences are re- numbers under licence from the mitter--perhaps unconsciously that to out by an organisation called the fused to all but Thailanders. The patenters. Thollanders make good which she was once opposed, namely People's Party turned the country Chinese, being the largest immigrants, niers and many pilots are turned out foreign (in this case Japanese) assis- affected by every year at the civil and military tunce for exploitation. The Inference overnight from an absolute monarchy are the most severely Into 11 constitutional government, this legislation.

flying training centres. Japanese Influence has been steadily

there That offelals have stated that os

Thailand's navy consists of a use- it was done unconsciously, gaining ground In Bangkok pollies. much as 90 percent, of the labour rul number of destroyers, gunboals Thailand's side of the case to be lward.

employed in the country in "foreign," and submarines, not to

speak of According to her officinin pho was un- STAGE OF TRANSITION

and for purposes of their own the turpedo boals and even a few cruis- able to find a market for her cotton, The People's Party still remains Japanese have interpreted the word ers, While some of the more senfor tin. rubber and teak with the Western reason whatsoever to assist Thailand have been dealt almost stagger-the only politically conscious body "foreign" to refer to the Chinese naval officers received their training Powers. Britain, for example, had no

(who have admittedly

tedly emigrated to in Englund, France or Germany in the development of these products." ing blows, but the intelligence in the country and elle prva Thailand in large numbers in recent most of the younger personnel re- as her own colonies supplied her re-

the Government, which is run by and determination in their mode

"National Assembly" consisting of years) and Japanese propaganda has ceived their naval education under quirements to the full.

are made much of Thailand's decision to the aegis of the Imperial Japanese whom 188 members, half of

Thailand's mineral wealth, besides of defence augur well for a con-

reduce Chinese Immigrational in Navy.

tin, is negligible. A little gold has nominated by the People's Party, and

been discovered, but not enough to at tinuance of

their resistance. the other half elected. This arrange fluence by making it one of the

tract mining interests. The only alter ment was made for a period of ten standpoints of Thailand's sympathy

native left to the country was to look They too can count upon a

years-until 1942-by which time the with Japan's Pan-Aslatic ideals.

But the most vital aspect of Thal- to a ready buyer in Japan, which sho tremendous

of

country is expected to be sufficiently reserve

The most significant step in Thol- qualified to be governed by a fully- land's recent polities, however, is the land's transition, has been her econo- did, and by way of return Thailand has mic development, and it is to this become a mare important purchaser of power, while it appears reason-elected Assembly.

change of name from Slam. That is point that her statesmen have paid Japaneso goods, thus almost completely

in

tion of her territories by the polliclans able to assume their equipment The weakness of the arrangement the language spoken not only ia up-to-date, efficient

became apparent for the first time in Thailand but in its irredents, which most attention, for it is a truism that submitting to the economic exploita-

a political harvest is to be reaped, and the spring of 1839 when a demand comprises certain districts of Chin the economic field must first be sown in of her

in French Indo- plentiful.

of and the country's armament ber for a detailed account of Gov- Chinn, the

Peninsula (these are now Malay Fe

only secondary ernment expenditure was refused.

mis under British protection but still pay

It is in this direction plans. There were also allegations of mis- unde

annual tributa Bangkok) and Japan has, during the passing years, moment is that Thailand's friendship of management of The unexpected happened w

when the some of the Shan States of North slowly but Demly entrenched herself with Japan, continued on these lines, Joleed their Burma which Thailand ceded to Bri- in the life of Thailand.

will affect her politically, and that she nominated members

may be compelled openly to While Thailand is able, by her Japan's advances even lo the extent elected colleagues in voting against lain many years ago. Does this the Government, causing a political mean that Thailand expects one day large exportation of rice, to remain of military collaboration. It is this

And and to extend her boundaries to caver crisis of the first magnitude resulting in the resignation of the the entire Thai-speaking corner of in perfect solvency, foreign finances danger that the Democratie front is

were needed to secure certain econo- now called upon to counter. Premier Col. Phya Bahon Bulbaya- the globe?

When Thailand started spending large sums on an extensive arina- ments programme under the aegis

man-

ECONOMIC SPHERE

Thailand's future progress, therefore,

in the Assembly by an elected Mem- bodin and orthernmost states gramme and political aspirations are appears to be bound up with Japan and

nom

sena.

the

purse. Mace

The close association which has now been formed between violin, trumpet, saxophone--to your S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. Great Britain, The United States. and Russin is another factor which must be greatly disturb ing to Hitler. Time was when there was reason to believe that Russia would remain aloof from

This brought to the limelight of the present war at all costs, as-Thalland's politica the present Prime suming a role which almost Minister, Major-General Liang Bipul Songgram, who has emerged as the mystifled the democracies. Later, virtual dictator of the country, con- the failure

trolling the army, navy and air force of the British in his capacity as Defence Minister, Military Mission in Russia, and. In addition to his office as Premier. He is also Minister, of the Interior the almost simultaneous success

and Chancellor of the Bangkok of the German Mission, left us University. bewildered and not a little con- cerned.

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Having received part of his mili- Inry training Germany. Major- General Bipul Songgram has shown German decided preference for methods in the training of his armed forces and the selection of his orma- sud-ment, and this may have accounted nt-partly for the large number of very itary-looking Germans in Bang- kok during those fateful spring months of two years ago.

Subsequent events upset all reckoning, the greatest and most sensational being the den manner in which Hitler tempted to double-cross Stalin, by invading Russian territory, After nine weeks of the great- est mass warfare in history, the campaign has merely served to world's arch-aggressor finds weaken her, and bring nearer himself in as unpleasant the day when she will be on the quandary as one can imagine, defensive, trying desperately to It is a cause for the utmost stave off the coup de praco gratification on the part of Ger- which Great Britain and the many's foes to know that Hit- United States are planning to ler, genius as he thinks he is, administer. It is encouraging has made a collosal blunder in

to know that Hitler has plunged antagonising Russia. There is his people into a gigantle not only a limit to Germany's struggle wnich, according to his ability to over-ride and ruth-ians should have been but a lessly smash other nations, but aide issue. It is also interest- a limit to the endurance of her in to consider the difficulty people and to her material ro- which now confronts both his Bourcos. So far, the Russian dapes, Italy and Japan.

to her

pro

e will apparently only be expedited as economic Japanese influence becomes increasing- that is established. The only fear at the

By DOUGLAS JAŃSZ

accept

For most people Thalland, formerly Slam, brings up pictures of clophants, Slamose twins and primitive templa dancing. But Thailand isn't a land of swords and other ancient weapons. It has modern anti-aircraft guns drawn by tractors as this photo shows. In the background are some of Bangkok's 300,Buddhist temples.

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