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Bangkok Thailand

The Pacific Story · July 1, 1945 · 29 min · 3,969 words

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To present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of oil conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific, and the millions of people who live around this greatest scene.

The drama of the peoples whose destiny is its stake in the Pacific War. Here, as another public service, is the tale of the war in the Pacific, and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.

Ooh, cork. There is a nervous man in Thailand these days. His name is the land of it, Abu Ywam.

He is premier of Thailand. He is a long way from the bombings of Bangkok. But he's nervous anyway. He's facing back and forth like this that he's placed up at Petchibung, the new capital of Thailand, 190 miles north east of Bangkok.

Yes, it is coward. I have a respect for you. Bring it in. It is from Burma. Yes. The message says that the British forces in Burma, driving toward the Thailand border, have taken important positions at Kalau and East of Tungu.

They are getting closer to us. Is there anything else, sir? No. I mean, have we had any visitors today? No, sir. The guards are still at their posts? Yes, sir. And they're all armed? Good.

Is there anything else, sir? Hmm? No, no, that's all that's all. But it isn't even the British advance on the Western frontier of Thailand that makes La Lang go to the Hui Wang nervous. It's something more immediate than that.

He remembers what happened to the last Premier. Stop that man! Stop him! He tried to assassinate the Premier! Stop him! The thanks people, Sankram! Are you all right? Yes. Yes, I think I am. Let me help you.

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