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The Thai Legation to the Department of State 38
The Thai Legation presents its compliments to the Department of State and has the honour to transmit the following message addressed to the Secretary of State by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand on September 3rd 1945.
“I have the honour to inform you that His Excellency the Regent, in the name of H. M. the King, has appointed me His Majesty’s Prime Minister and concurrently the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and I have already assumed both posts as from the 3rd of September 1945.
On this occasion I hasten to express the solemn assurance that the foreign policy of my Government will be firmly based on cordial friendship and unreserved collaboration with the United States of America and the other United Nations in the establishment of peace, stability, and the prosperity of the world of freedom and justice. As far as the United States of America is concerned, I also sincerely wish to emphasize that Thailand always remembers the warmest sympathies and the perfect understanding the United States has extended to her since the very beginning of the relations between our two countries; and more especially in the hour of international difficulties in which, by force of circumstances, Thailand has been compelled to be involved, the goodwill of the United States towards Thailand has been clearly manifested in various instances. This will, for ever, remain engraved in the memory of the whole Thai nation. Now more than ever my country needs the precious assistance and support of the United States of America, and now more than ever we feel so much confident that our expectation will meet with favourable response. Please be assured that on my part I will use every endeavour further to promote the close and cordial relations which happily exist between our two countries.
I avail myself of this opportunity to express to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. Thawi Bunyaket.”
- Handed by the Thai Chargé (Bhakdi) to the Chief of the Division of South-east Asian Affairs on September 5. The Chargé was informed that his note was being received “unofficially and informally” inasmuch as it was an official communication from the Thai Government which was not recognized by the United States and that Seni Pramoj continued to be recognized as Thai Minister in his personal capacity.↩