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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and United States Ambassador to Thailand Edwin F. Stanton
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GOM
S Mr. Achison
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
0119
Memorandum of Conversation
839 166
DATE:
June 29,1951
SUBJECT:
Conditions in Thailand
2
PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary
Ambassador Edwin F. Stanton - Thailand
. SERVICE" RECORDS 'NATIONAL AND
COPIES TO:S -- Mr. Acheson
FE
American Embassy - Bangkok
u.s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
16-61120-1
I called on the Secretary yesterday afternoon. He asked me to outline
for him the present situation in Thailand. This I did, emphasizing Communist
activity among Chinese laborers, students and teachers, their successful
penetration and domination of many important Chinese societies and fraternal
organizations and their daily outpourings of propaganda, directed forcefully
against us, through the medium of newspapers and publications which they con-
trol. I said that more recently the Communists had been directing their atten-
tion to the Thai, seeking to win over intellectuals, politicians and even
Buddhist priests. These insiduous and subversive activities constitute a seri-
ous threat to the Thai Government and people and are apparently part of an
overall plan to seize control of Thailand as well as the other countries of
Southeast Asia.
I recalled to the Secretary that in spite of the Communist threat, the
Thai Government and people had responded immediately to the UN call for support
and material assistance against Communist aggression in Korea. I stressed
the friendship of the Thai people for us which had deepened as the result of
the wise postwar policies we had pursued, and urged that Thailand not be
forgotten in our strategic and other planning for Southeast Asia.
The Secretary said he was glad to have a first hand account of conditions
in Thailand and assured me that our Thai friends would not be forgotten.
DECLASSIFIED
Edwin F. Stanton:re
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 3(D) or (E)
6-29-51
Dept. of State letter, Aug 5-2-26 ,1973
Ba NLT- HC , NARS Date 6.25.76
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