Tyfon Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 The BBC program Parting Shots - about resignation and retirement messages from various public figures - featured in episode on a valedictory dispatch from Sir Anthony Rumbold, UK Ambassador to Thailand in 1967. Selected lines from the 10-page report - written in confidence but now released under UK Freedom of Information law - are causing a stir in LOS. The full dispatch (2.5MB) can be downloaded from: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/Sir-Anthony-Rumbold.pdf The program can be heard (even overseas) at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n85qk/Parting_Shots_Episode_1/ My favourite line so far is "Bangkok sucks everything to itself." :content: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Mr Rombold was the ambassador to Thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Mr Rumbold was the ambassador to Thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyfon Posted October 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Before he took a job a at Grace Brothers, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 That explains a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLeakHunt Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Was he in charge of haberdashery or menswear and did he tolerate Mrs Slocombes jokes about her pussy ? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Mr Rumbold was the ambassador to Thailand? you don't have to ask the same question twice. You made already enough posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 That piece could have been written last week with about the same content (with the exceptions of specific character names from that era, but replaced with similar characters from this era). "are causing a stir in LOS" - haven't notice this even discussed anywhere yet in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyfon Posted October 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 "are causing a stir in LOS" - haven't notice this even discussed anywhere yet in Thailand. It's quite old news insofar as it was mistakenly widely circulated at the time it was written, but the BBC resurrected it and it appeared in the Nation which prompted a dissociative comment from the current ambassador. But yes it is still pretty current in some aspects, especially about those dreadful American chappies "...pushing up the rents and corrupting the girls." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 20 years ago it was "those nasty Nips" pushing up the rents and prices. p.s. Ah, for the fun in the mid 1970s, when the US appointed a former CIA director as ambassador to Thailand! For some reason the students decided to protest. He didn't last very long. I met him once before he was "reassigned". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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