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...diplomat and his wife (be they from Siam or Switzerland) found Washington a handshaking city on New Year's Day. Having celebrated the end of 1926 according to their tastes, they arose at 9:45 a.m., snatched a cup of coffee and hurried to the White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many...
Squash. Next day the brown eyes and fuzzy mustache of King Pracha Tipok betrayed animation as he delivered an address. "Squash," said His Majesty, "squash is nothing less than a godsend to a country like Siam." He was addressing the Royal Squash Racquets Club. "I find that since I have taken up the game I have been able to keep perfectly fit in the rainy season, whereas hitherto I am afraid that at this time of the year I have been anything but well. "But apart from the question of fitness, what other game is there for the rainy season...
Occidentals recalled that the late King Rama VI (TIME, Dec. 7, 1925) introduced a resplendent offshoot of the Boy Scout movement into Siam and went about attended by Boy Scouts who were actually potent nobles clad in uniforms of his invention, portentous with insignia and crowned with regulation felt hats bedecked with plumes...
...Fascist Government, after having settled our debts with the United States and Great Britain, concluded a treaty of commerce, amity and navigation with Jugoslavia, and a pact with Great Britain concerning common interests in Abyssinia, a treaty of commerce with Siam, an arbitration pact with Spain and one with Rumania, a treaty of commerce with Guatemala, a treaty of friendship with the Yemen (Arabia...
...that the United States will eventually become independent of foreign sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines), Burma, Siam, China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Portugal, Spain and scattered regions of Africa...