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...because of the reactionary power, wealth and sheer numbers of other members of the Siamese royal family. In Bangkok the sprightly, progressive little King was strongly suspected of encouraging the People's Party to oust his relatives from the enormous number of soft, well-paid jobs they held in Siam's Government. Every member of the Cabinet, for example, was a Prince...
...while slim King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni were disporting themselves at their seaside palace of Huahin last week, Siamese officers suddenly pounced on other members of the royal family and locked them up for the night in His Majesty's marble and uncomfortable Throne Hall. One of Siam's war boats was sent to the King, bearing what His Majesty chose to call an "ultimatum" and at once "graciously accepted" adding "what the People's Party have done is quite right!" Boarding a special train, the King & Queen returned amid cheers to Bangkok. Everyone seemed pleased except members...
...Prince Nondiyavat Svasti, younger brother of Siam's small Queen Rambai Barni, was graduated from Georgetown University. From Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) was graduated Paul All-man Siple, Erie Boy Scout who accompanied the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930. At Germantown Academy (Pa.), Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Jr., son of the Athletics' famed manager, won the Robert E. Lamberton Medal for the best record in athletics (baseball, basketball, football) and scholarship...
Hearing of Press-agent chatter that his brother-in-law's nephew Prince Ned Svasti, Princeton undergraduate, was thinking of marrying a New York dance-hall hostess, vigilant King Prajadhipok of Siam sent warning that Prince Ned Svasti must do no such thing...
King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...