Correspondence with London and Bangkok over the dangers to the trade of Singapore from an American proposal to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Kra. The British Company Taylor Woodrow are also interested in the project. The Foreign Office notes that in the Anglo-Thai Peace Treaty of 1946 the Thais had undertaken not to cut a canal through the Isthmus without the prior consent of the British.
FCO 141/15272
D2014060261, HD201404007
English
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