THAILAND POLICY
No Military Concessions To Japan
i Received Eebruary 18, 7 p.m. )
I.ON DON, Eebruary 17.
According to a Thai spokesman, whose views represent opinion in Bangkok, Thailand is not only not discussing the question of leasing bases to Japan, but also site would resist to the utmost any Japanese or other effort to use Thai territory for warlike purposes. The Singapore correspondent of "The Times” says the Thailanders realize that they are in certain difficulties as tt restilt'of the Japanese mediation in their dispute with Indo-China, tmt it is authoritatively confirmed that Thailand does not intend to vary her policy of strict neutrality toward larger world issues, and she certainly does not desire to give tile Japanese southward advance any assistance, thereby (‘tidangering the policy of neutrality. A Bangkok message says that' the British Minister in Thailand, Sir Josiah Crosby, in it statement, said that British-Thai relations were most cordial. and any statement to the contrary was ridiculous.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 7
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