Thailand’s wartime balancing act

http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/15Aug2005_news33.php

Bangkok was forced to pick sides, and its resentment over territorial conflicts with Western powers and the failure of other nations to come to its assistance pushed it into the arms of the Japanese

By THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK

Unlike its neighbours in Southeast Asia, Thailand emerged from the ravages of World War Two relatively unscathed.

Although […]

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