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FOREIGN STUDENTS LIKES KANSAS—From Panitchpakdi, graduate student from Bangkok, Thailand, says he likes Kansas because he feels very much at home here. He is shown with his wife Viparadi. Panitchpakdi is studying in this country on a Siamese scholarship.
Student Says Thailand And Kansas Similar
By JERRY KNUDSON
Thailand (Siam) and Kansas have a great deal in common, says Prom Panitchakdki, graduate student from Bangkok.
"Kansas feeds the United States with its wheat," he said, "and Thailand feeds the Orient with its rice."
"I feel that I am at home here, because the people have honest faces and are sturdy workers," he added.
Prom Panitchpakdi, on a Siamese government scholarship, and his wife Viparadi have been in this country for three years now. They have two children, Pochna and Nop, who were both born in the States and have dual American and Siamese citizenship.
A graduate of Chulalongkoon university in Bangkok at the outbreak of World War II in the Far East Prom remembers vividly the effect of the war on his country.
"Living in a small country, we could only resist the Japanese troops for a few days," he said. "The government in power at that time tried to save the property of the people by yielding to the Japanese, but at the same time tried to find a wav to get in touch with the Allies."
No forces were stationed in Bang-
kok, capital city of some 700,000
population, but officers remained
there. Prom said.
"The Japanese tried to win the friendship of the Siamese because of the country's rich supply of rice, tin and rubber" he recalled.
From was a lieutenant at the time in the Siamese army. During the occupation, he worked on military police duty to keep order in Bangkok.
"The Siamese people were not sympathetic with the Japanese cause," he said. "An underground movement did what it could to obstruct Japanese operations, at first burning anything useful to the Japanese. The people treated Allied prisoners of war well, and tried to protect them from the Japanese whenever possible."
"The they were mainly strategic bombings of communication and transportation facilities," he said. "If we had been bombed like some European cities, Bankok would not now be rebuilt."
Prom remembers the bombings of Bangkok by British and American planes on "clear moonlit nights" early in the war.
the considers the present high inflation in Thailand to have begun during the war because of the economic crisis for rice, and the spending of Japanese soldiers.
"Farmers had to become soldiers—and after the war they went to the cities for higher wages. Now merchants are adding to the taxation, speculating and stocking up because of the threat of a new war," he said.
All imports were cut off during the war, so that there were grave shortages of medicine and cloth.
"But we had plenty to eat!" Prom laughed.
Prom doesn't believe that Communism will be a major problem in Thailand.
"We didn't suffer as much as the other Southeast Asian countries during the war," he said. "We have big fields and the farmers own them. They would laugh at the idea of Communism" he smiled.
As soon as he receives his doctor of philosophy degree in mathematics in a year or so, Prom Panitchpakdi and family plan to return immediately to Thailand.
"It is nice living here." Prom said, "but I intend to go back, because they need people to advance our country."
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