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On 24 June 1939 the President of the Council of Ministers issued a declaration that the name of the country, hitherto known as Siain, should henceforward be Thailand, and of the people and nationality, Thai.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1962). Thailand. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270916_97
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