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...King of Siam, now en route to the U. S., will have a similar operation performed after examination by Dr. William Holland Wilmer of Johns Hopkins...
Royalty en Route. Slim little King Prajadhipok and ample, moon-faced Queen Rambai of Siam were streaking across the Pacific ocean last week, bound for Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's estate on Long Island Sound. There His Majesty will recuperate after deft U. S. surgeons have removed a cataract from...
...Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial kings who could thrill distinguished visitors by conferring on them whatnots...
...resembling the G. P. U.'s confidential papers. Theory: when the police (of Bangkok, for example) seize the effects of a G. P. U. agent a great many of his papers will prove to be "forgeries" (forged by the G. P. U.) and in the public mind (of Siam, for example) the work of the police will be discredited...
After landing at Vancouver on Friday, April 17, King Prajadhipok of Siam will arrive in Cambridge later in the month, where he will be entertained by a committee of Siamese Harvard students. Since he plans to pay a short visit to the leading cities of Canada, the date of his arrival in Cambridge is as yet uncertain. Due to the unsettled nature of the King's program the reception committee has been unable to come to a final decision regarding the entertainment to be provided. A formal dinner at which he will be the guest of honor has been hinted...