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...victory was a little diluted. Siam amended Tsiang's resolution to condemn Russia for having "failed to carry out" the treaty-Tsiang's phrase had been "violated." Besides there were 24 abstainers, including France and Britain. "Academic," ho-hummed Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and likely to "open up old wounds." Greece and Turkey were the only Europeans to vote...
...French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...
...southern borders of China, and preparing to use its Seventh Fleet for aggression against the Chinese Reds. "These flagrantly illegal acts," cried Vishinsky, "will be declared to be defensive measures against China's aggression whenever events begin to take their course on the southern borders of China, in Siam, Burma and Yunnan Province...
...King and I. Charming Rodgers & Hammerstein period musical, with Gertrude Lawrence; how the King of Siam learned to govern from a governess (TIME, April...
...moaned an overemotional Siamese consul in Singapore last week, "what will happen to our King now?" The answer to this rhetorical question-in a land which most Americans are apt to regard as a musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, her political history has been punctuated by eight coups d'etat, none of which had any profound effect on the powerless ruling House of Chakkri. Last week, young hepcat King Phumiphon Adundet,* his pretty Queen Sirikit and their eight-month-old daughter Princess Lotus Precious Stone arrived home from...