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...other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere along the ancient Royal Way-now the jungle-covered boundary between Siam and the "unpacified area"-are undiscovered temples with valuable carvings, perhaps treasure...
...experience as a revolutionary in China's bloody years, 1925-27, when he was Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...
Died. George Wylie Paul ("Old Roman") Hunt, 75. seven times Governor of Arizona, onetime (1920-21) Minister to Siam; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Phoenix, Ariz. A onetime copper mine mucker, he served 14 years in Arizona's Territorial Legislature before he was chosen president of its constitutional convention, then in 1912, first Governor of the new State. He served more terms as Governor of a state than any other man in U. S. history...
...playing fields of Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation...
Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...