Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
...commercials, and a traveling variety show, to while away the time between laps. The first day's lap was uneventful. On the second day, as the race wound on through Communist-infested territory to Baclieu, Vietnamese troops stood at the ready every 100 yards along the route. Cambodian Champion Soun (he has no other name) and a Saigon policeman named Ngo Than Liem were racing well ahead of the field as they passed the town of Cantho...
Tired of Red infiltrators, he fired his cabinet. Leaping into his black Jeepster, supported by a bodyguard of 150 Cambodian stalwarts, he joined his six Cambodian battalions in an attack on a secret Communist stronghold at Angkor Wat. Wearing the uniform of a two-star general, he took personal command of the battle, sent his war elephants crashing through the flooded forest and his soldiers gliding in sampans among forgotten temples. In three days of fighting, he and his men routed the Communists and captured their headquarters. With a new cabinet composed almost entirely of his own relatives, King Norodom...
...listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no freedom of taxation. Our police cannot touch them." The French insist on taking Cambodian troops under their command, said Norodom, and he warned: "If we have an invasion of the sort that Laos has suffered recently, I am not at all certain that I can call for a general mobilization as did Laos. If there is a menace, the people will say that...
...were turned over to the Air Force Symphony Orchestra to be harmonized and orchestrated. Last week at a regular summer concert, Colonel George Howard, the orchestra's conductor, played a miniature suite made up of three of Norodom's pieces: an animated waltz with a few tinkling, Cambodian effects, Berceuse; a contrasting movement, Nostalgia, and a lively beguine, Cherie. The king's music won the loudest applause of the evening. Cherie might, with popular orchestration (and perhaps another diplomatic assist) provide King Phumiphon's show tunes with some stiff competition...