SAS book report unfair to Rommel

Editor;

Your article published on 30 September (“UK’s SAS offers rare details of secret missions,” by David Stringer, Associated Press) is a true insult to the memory of a soldier who made his duty with loyalty and great competence even though he was in the wrong.

Erwin Rommel was a shrewd strategist and able commander recognizable also by the enemy of the time.

The article written by an arrogant young in U.K. is full of mistakes. The guy should not make use of inane words as “infamous Nazi”. Rommel was adversary to the ideology of Hitler from the very beginning but he made his obligation.

This columnist should study with care the story of SAS consulting a US library.

At the very beginning SAS was a hotchpotch of ex cons and desperate people with nothing to lose. Only in the WW2 the soldiers became a regular Army unit.

Pattaya Mail should be more unbiased.
Regards,
PR

King Chulalongkorn the Great

Dear Editor,

Referring to the article about King Chulalongkorn the Great in last week’s issue of Pattaya Mail, readers may be interested to learn that the territories in Laos detached by the French and the two northern states of the Federation of Malaya were returned to Siam during the Pacific War in the 1940’s by the Japanese with whom Siam was allied, only to be recovered by the two colonial powers in 1945.

Reminders of the French occupation of Siamese territory can be found in That Phanom on the Mekong where bakeries making French bread can still be found and in Koh Sichang where there are two venues where the French bowling game of petanque is still played.
Roger Womersley,
Koh Sichang

SAS book report unfair to Rommel

King Chulalongkorn the Great