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...prevalent Oedipus complex, broadened to encompass resentment of authority and pompous persons in high places, is betrayed by a number of limericks which demean the King of Siam, the King of Baroda, the Queen of Baroda and other dignitaries, public and private...
...Germany; Inside Asia begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and finally Palestine...
Unlike most travel books this one really travels, loiters nowhere, observes brightly on the fly, dwells most approvingly on the efforts of Siam's progressive Government to turn that still independent country into a democracy despite Japanese example and proximity. Fly in the ointment: the Government's mechanization program is causing serious technological unemployment among elephants...
...Paris Exposition of 1937 was a large map of Austria painted on the walls of the Austrian pavilion. The nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world...
Other countries represented include Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Guatemala, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Roumania, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Vonezuela, and Wales...