"WON'T GO COMMUNIST"
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State of Emergency To Be Declared in Siam
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' Received Friday, 9.35 a.m. BANGKOK, Feb. 17. A state of emeigancy would be 'proclaimed in Siam within the next 24 hours against the "growing Communist menace," Marsha Pxiibul Songkhram announced to'day. He said he had just received i information from Paris that the . Vieinam leader, Ho Chi_ Minh '"delinitely -juined hands" with the jCninese Communi-u leader Moe Tse ! Tung. This and tne developments jin Burma had incrcased Siam's anxioty (.-vcr "Communist infktrai tion, insidious propaganda and war 'nerves." The choice before the 'siamese people was bloodshed_ or 1 peaco. He was confident xhat Siam i would nover go Communist. The : government would "take good ! care" of the smali section of dis,contents.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1949, Page 5
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