In the wilds of northern Burma last. week, ... In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team—Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S.

To Siam’s east lay Indo-China, where the Westerners refused to leave and where the Communists had been able to take advantage of a confusion second only to Burma’s. To Siam’s north lay China ...

SIAM, about the size of France, is a country of rice, rubber, fourteen million good-natured peasants and a boy king. On the map it looks rather like an octopus with one tentacle dangling into Malaya ...

It is well known that monks from Siam and Burma (as Thailand and Myanmar were called earlier) helped stem a decline in the practice of Buddhism, and contributed to its democratization in Sri Lanka ...

Another concern for the British was that members of the Ghadar Party, which was formed by Indians in the United States in 1913, would smuggle in arms from the porous Siam-Burma border and recruit ...

The story of the Siam-Burma Death Railway (built in October 1942 to Oct 16, 1943) constitutes an important aspect of what historians call "the Pacific theatre of World War II".

The circumstances which necessitated help from Siam and Burma, the process of securing such help, the role of the Dutch in it, and the results of foreign involvement are vividly described by ...