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British Publisher Allen Lane, whose sixpenny paperbound Penguin and Pelican have flooded British newsstands and brought him a fortune, left London for India, Burma and Siam. Purpose: to investigate the possibilities of publishing paper-covered books in Basic English (850 words which "do all the work of 20,000") for use East of Suez...
King Ananda Mahidol will spend not more than six months in Siam and head back to Switzerland before the monsoon season gets around again. Strong Man Phya Phahol has set 1945 as the King's Coronation Year...
...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...
Last week the little King's aplomb was again a matter for comment, this time by his 14,000,000 subjects in Siam, where he arrived for his first visit since his accession to the throne. King Ananda was designated constitutional monarch in 1935 by Siam's Strong Man, Premier and Army Chief Colonel Phya Phahol Pholphayuha Sena, when King Ananda's uncle, childless King Prajadhipok, abdicated. King Ananda Mahidol was allowed to remain in Switzerland to complete his schooling and build up his frail physique, thought unfitted for the wet May-to-October monsoon of Siam...
...still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have...