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...Wrong my American friend! You must know that in Siam we had at one time an official called the 'Second King' or as you would say the 'Vice President.' The last Siamese who held this office, which has now been abolished, was Prince George Washington. That was his real name but people called him 'Prince George' for short...
...prominent member of the Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
Golden Umbrellas, After landing at Vancouver, after greetings from Canadian officials, Siam's King & Queen will board the Canadian Pacific private car Van Home, their suite will board two compartment Pullmans, detectives and guards will board two ordinary Pullmans, and, with diner, club car and baggage car attached the Royal special will speed Eastward, crossing the U. S. frontier at Portal, N. Dak. about midnight April 19. Drowsy officials despatched 1,700 miles by the State Department will extend greetings to H. R. H. the Prince of Sukhodaya (King Prajadhipok's incognito...
Incognito, and with scarcely more pomp than surrounds the movements of J. P. Morgan for whom a private gangplank, etc. is always provided, Siam's somewhat frail King will spend some three months in the U. S. taking what would be called in Europe "the cure...
...last two Kings of Siam have fostered temperance and monogamy by precept & example. After studying conditions throughout the Occident, after pondering the advisability of restrictive regulations, King Prajadhipok and his predecessor decided that the risk of inflicting on Siam bootleg liquor and bootleg immorality was too great...