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...French are encircled and their end has come." Embarrassed France made concessions to ward Cambodia's full independence within the French Union. Gratified but impatient of French delay, King Norodom Sihanouk last week took the most unorthodox step of his career: he went into voluntary exile in neighboring Siam...
There are White Thais (whose women wear mostly white), Black Thais (who wear black), and, more recently, Red Thais (from the political colors they wear), who have their own autonomous administration in southern Yunnan (Red China). But Thais, of one color or another, inhabit Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Siam and northern Burma. In Laos the Communists have already set up their own puppet government (see above), but Communist propaganda speaks of "liberating" the Thai people as a whole and establishing among them a "Free Asian Republic...
...Siam, the monarchy of songwriting King Phumiphon Adundet, may be the Communists' next objective. Siam's population (17 million) is largely Thai, and the government is torn with dissension. On the Siamese side of the Laos border there are already some 50,000 pro-Communist Chinese and Vietnamese rebels, organized and trained by Chinese and Viet Minh agents. They sit astride the traditional opium-smuggling routes, and are believed to have accumulated stocks of modern arms. Field Marshal Phibun Songgram's border guards find it prudent not to trouble them. Former Premier Pridhi Panomyong has long been...
...birthdays of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak (a Sikh religious leader) and the Hindu gods Rama and Krishna. Last week the Indian government added a new birthday to the list. The addition: Gautama Buddha, founder of the great religion which has successfully invaded China, Japan, Siam, Burma, Ceylon, but has fallen off in his native India...
...itinerary: Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Siam, India (where he spent two weeks at the Lucknow meetings of he World Council of Churches), Egypt, then down the east coast of Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Rhodesia) to Johannesburg and up the west coast (the Belgian and French Congos, the Cameroons, Nigeria, the Gold Coast...