Thailand: For Britons it's a friendly Asian holiday paradise. But the reality of moving lock, stock and barrel to the other side of the world, has been a lot harder for some of the tens of thousands of expats.
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Hard lessons in expat paradise
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Keep your big mouth shut. A bit of knowlegde won't hurt before making statements like that!!skandii wrote: They just held their hands up to the Japs druring WW2.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_ ... _Khirikhan
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That was interesting - never realised that. Plus of course there were very many Thais/Karens etc who fought a restistance movement against the Japanese, with Allied backing, in and around Kanchanaburi and the bridge. That was to stop the Japanese getting into Burma and then India. A rather important conflict during WW2.
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Yes. Exactly and as Lomu says many Thai nationals from many races in the area risked their lives to assist the allied prisoners in need of assistance.johnnyk wrote:Thailand was for many many years a classic buffer state between the British and French empires.
As for WW2 and the Japanese, only fools would fight a war with no hope of winning against a serious military machine.
Survival or annihilation? Easy choice and they are non the worse for wear.
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Strange how many chinese families own so much of Thailad though!
Not forgetting of course the fighting between Thai and French Forces in 1940, and the Thai Declaration of War against Britain and USA in Janaury 1942.johnnyk wrote:Thailand was for many many years a classic buffer state between the British and French empires.
As for WW2 and the Japanese, only fools would fight a war with no hope of winning against a serious military machine.
Survival or annihilation? Easy choice and they are non the worse for wear.
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Fighting between VICHY French Forces and Thailand!!!Winkie wrote:
Not forgetting of course the fighting between Thai and French Forces in 1940, and the Thai Declaration of War against Britain and USA in Janaury 1942.
The other French Forces were in England.
Declaration of war, yes, but everybody understand why.
Voluntary?
Hardly!
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Norseman is correct, both Thailand and (Indo China) controlled by Vichy France were forced against the will of both peoples to declare war against the US & UK and ANZAC Allies. Both had already been overpowered my far superior military regimes. In both cases resistance would have been futile and would have resulted in the deaths of many innocent Thais, Vietnamese, Cambodians and of course the enemy troops of Korea, Japan, Germany and Vichy France.Winkie wrote:Only adding to facts regarding Thailand's involvement in WWII
Vichy or not, they also still had a recorded conflict during the early part of WWII with French Troops
As for Chinese ownership of Thailand, and all the other countries mentioned by Johnny the time will come when it can be re-possessed just as the Chinese did with foreign owned land in the reign of Mao Tse Tung.
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Correct!Norseman wrote:Fighting between VICHY French Forces and Thailand!!!Winkie wrote:
Not forgetting of course the fighting between Thai and French Forces in 1940, and the Thai Declaration of War against Britain and USA in Janaury 1942.
The other French Forces were in England.
Declaration of war, yes, but everybody understand why.
Voluntary?
Hardly!
I'd sign anything with a gun held to my head!
Easy to be brave 65 years later.
