Thailand Deal with Uncle Sam: Troops in Vietnam Exchanged for Military Aid

The Week Vol. 8, No. 19, 9 November 1967 · p. 5 of the scan · 90 words

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According to a statement from the Thai minister of the interior, General Praphas i Charusthien, Thailand will send 10,000 troops to South Vietnam after the US gives Thailand more military aid. For a long time the Thailand government has played an important role of complicity in the Vietnam war. It has helped US aggression by furnishing the US air force with air bases. The biggest bombers have been using these | bases recently for raids all over Vietnam, but so far Thailand has not dent any troops | into Vietnam.