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...Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam! To take German minds off what the Chancellor was hatching every newsorgan in the Fatherland was ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier...
Since Old Paul hates motor cars and likes his guests to hate them, the usual thing is to drive out to Neudeck in an old-fashioned landauer. But for Royalty would this do? For Siam's little King, who dotes on the picturesque and is forever filming it with a Leica still camera and a Bell & Howell cinemachine. a landauer would have been just the thing. But swank Col. Oscar von Hindenburg insisted on a Mercedes. As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants...
...served peeled and sliced. As is usual when the President has foreign guests, Old Paul blinked, smiled, nodded and said little. King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni stayed two full hours. As a send-off they got a fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture...
...widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control of the Fatherland's whole economic life. While the Press kept up a fanfare about the King of Siam and printed countless Hindenburg-with-Hitler pictures, the Chancellor got in the most drastic economic undercover work of his regime...
Organizer-Principal William Harris of Siam's Prince Royal's College...