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Your article U. S. Minister Brodie to Finland (TIME, July 13) expresses only the half of it. Not only does he import spuds to Finland, he at one time imported Oregon apples to Bangkok, Siam...
King Prajadhipok of Siam: i) had the John Davison Rockefeller Jrs. to tea; 2) ascended with Alfred Emanuel Smith to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building whence he peered through dark green glasses at the city's multicellular environs; 3) called on Thomas Alva Edison at West Orange, N. J. and inspected models of the inventor's achievements. The royal plan: to stay on at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y. until late July, go to Canada for a month, sail for Siam from Vancouver...
Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...
...work, and both are of a kind-the farm he recently bought at Underbill, Vt, and the home he is building at Riverdale, N. Y. There is one other, recent accomplishment of Dr. Wheeler's which contributes to his eminence. He removed the cataract from the King of Siam's left eye. Although a cataract removal is a simple operation for a trained eye surgeon, the Royal Siamese case projected Dr. Wheeler in the public mind as a doctor-of-the-year...
...semester is held on board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...