THAILAND BECOMES MORE FRIENDLY
ATTITUDE TO BRITAIN REALISATION AS TO WHERE FRIENDS ARE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES DEFENCE PRAISED (Recd. 9 p.m.) Singapore, Sept. 18. "Relations with Thailand are increasingly more friendly, *aid the British Commander-in-Chief in the Far East, Air-Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, in an interview. “The Thai people,” he said, “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 to Malaya, which action I do not think they would have taken three months ago. They are growing more independent, realising that it is too uncomfortable to be too dependent, economically and financially, on Japan.” Sir Robert paid 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 tight.,” he said. “I am satisfied they will meet with strength any challenge to their independence.”— U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 221, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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