RELEASED FROM ARREST
EX-PRIME MINISTER OF SIAM (Rec. 1 p.m.) BANGKOK. March 24. On the order of the Bangkok High Court, Marshal Pibul Songgram, who was Prime Minister of Siam during the Japanese occupation, and who declared war against the Allies in 1942, was released to-day from the house arrest under which he was placed last October, while war crime charges were being m prepared. The court ordered the release of all prisoners held on war crimes charges on the ground that the War Crimes Act could not be applied retrospectively^
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Evening Star, Issue 25750, 25 March 1946, Page 6
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