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Into this drowsy, gentle kingdom came the Communists. They smuggled arms from Siam across Cambodia to Viet Minh soldiers in Tonkin. Commissioner de Raymond complained to Cambodia's plump, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk, who sits more easily on a horse than on a throne. The Cambodians answered with a couple of questions: If things are so bad, why doesn't the Commissioner himself take more precautions, especially since the assassination of South Viet Nam Commissioner Chanson (TIME, Aug. 13)? And why did the Commissioner keep a house full of Vietnamese servants? Said De Raymond...
...appended documents) are devoted to tracing Douglas MacArthur's career form his birthplace in a military camp in Arkansas to his latest residence in a tower suite at the Waldorf Astoria. The technique of the narrative is to set the reader up with several pages of straight reporting, then siam him with a few paragraphs of interpretation. The tone is not so unfriendly to MacArthur as some of his other critical have been, but the authors have nearly undercut any claims the general may make to consistency, and have beaten down many of his most pronounced opinions with the bludgeon...
...King and I. Charming Rodgers & Hammerstein period musical, with Gertrude Lawrence; how the King of Siam learned to govern from a governess (TIME, April...
Besides China, Malaya, New Zealand, and Korea, the Pacific nations include Japan, the Philippines, Siam, and Vietnam...
...final gesture of solidarity with an ally, the navy officially apologized to the U.S. for spoiling its party. "We did not intend to insult much-appreciated goodwill to Siam," said the navy, "but we were compelled by patriotic motives...