THAILAND’S POLICY
RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN MORE FRIENDLY ATTITUDE SINGAPORE, (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) Sept. 18. “ Relations with Thailand art increasingly more friendly,” Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham said in an interview. “ The Thais have begun to realise that we are their real friends and are looking to us for help and to some extent for advice. Recently they sent army and air force officers to Malaya, which action I do not think they would have taken three months ago. They are growing more independent, realising that it would be too uncomfortable to be toe dependent economically and financially on Japan.” The Air Chief Marshal paid a tribute to the Netherlands East Indies war effort, which he saW first hand last week. '* They are determined to resist any attack, and are ready to put up a real fight. I am satisfied that they will meet with strength any challenge to their independence.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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151THAILAND’S POLICY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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