Greater Thai Movement(04)
He expounded his credo in the course of a lecture which he delivered before a gathering of instructors and students of the Military Education Department of the General Staff of the Army on October 17} 1940. He declared:
A lot of books
written by Luang Vichitr
A patriotic book "Lueat Suphan"(Suphan's Blood)
written by Luang Vichitr
written by Luang Vichitr
“What the Prime Minister said was true. When the present war is over, there would be no small nations in the world, all would be merged into big ones. So there were only two ways left for us to choose, either to become a Power or be swallowed up by some other Power.
“ If we got back our lost territory, then we could have the hope of becoming a Power, for, besides increasing the areas of our territory and increasing the population, we should be able to get into contact with those vast regions inhabited by Thais to the North of Sipsong Chuthai ( a territory now forming part of Northern Vietnam), where there were 24 million people of Thai blood and Thai descent, who still considered themselves Thais and spoke the Thai language.”
So Luang Vichitr dreamed of a Thai Empire extending from China in the North to the Malay Peninsula in the South, and from Vietnam on the East to Burma on the West, and such an empire would be constituted by adding to the present Kingdom not merely a portion of French Indo-China, but the Shan States under British protection and also other situated in Southern China.
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