ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER
Thai Reply Awaited (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) BANGKOK. May 23. Britain is still awaiting Thailand’s reply to her offer to send a Royal Air Force fighter squadron to join the forces of other S.E.A.T.O. nations in Thailand, according to usually reliable sources After the announcements I ..that Australian and New Zealand contingerr's would be; sent to help bolster Thailand's defences against the , Communist threat, the British ! Embassy here is described as; “on its toes and ready to go" as soon as an announcement; about the British offer is i made. Thai Foreign Ministry I sources said today an an-; nouncement "might be made; ’ quite soon—may be in two ’ or three days’’ The sources said the Thai ’ Government had not yet pre- j ’ pared any announcement; about New Zealand forces 1 1 and this might also be made; 1 in two or three days.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29830, 24 May 1962, Page 12
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