SIAMESE RELATIONS WITH INDIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200470010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 7, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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Siamese Relations with India
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The Siamese government is "stalling" regarding the invitation
from Pandit Rehm to attend an Asiatic conference to be held
in India o probably next t:arcb 4 The Siamoee Foreign Minister
has denied ever receiving the Invitation, although It was
announced in New Delhi that Siam had been Invited.
A rumor rculatin in Bangkok is that the invitation arrived
In October 1946, mitten on Weh: is personal stationery. It
to said an official at the Foreign Office refused to accept It
it was addressed to the Institute of Pacific Relations. The
letter is alleged to have been finally delivered to the Indian
Cultural Lodge in Bangkok, When the Indian Consul arrived in
gkok he questioned Foreign Minister Wai Direk Jaiyar aaa who
was apathetic in the matter, The Indian Consul then went to
Prince Dbani, who declined to act in the matter as it sounded
too "Political". There the matter now rests.
comment-, Siam appears to be trying to refuse the invitation
without making the refusal appear und.ip1.o;matic, as Siam does not
welcome the attempts India is making to take the leadership in
Southeast Asia,)
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