Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Sisowath's body died, Cambodian priests treated it with secret essences to preserve its outer flesh, removed all its internal organs except its heart and brain. Then they folded the body into an urn in the curled position of an unborn child, symbolizing preparation for rebirth somewhere, sometime...
Though the late King's bodily remains thus passed into smoke and ashes, no devout Cambodian believed that that was the end of Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vrapong Harireach Barmintor Phouvanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchéa Tippedey...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
...Majesty and his boss talked of Japanese-incited demonstrations in Bangkok demanding the "return" of a slice of Cambodian territory to Thailand; of Vichy's rejection of official Tnaï claims to that and some other territory; of renewed demands. They decided Thailand had little basis for these demands except the prostration of France. Thailand cited a secret treaty concluded between the monarchs of Cambodia and Siam in 1863 granting Siam certain concessions-on which, however, Siam later officially backed down under French pressure. The case of Thailand was neither more nor less justifiable than that of France when...