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Returning from a year of study in Siam, James M. Andrews '29, associate in Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, reported a trend toward commercial development in that small kingdom, which has hitherto devoted itself to agriculture. He attributed this trend to the need of Siam to hold its own against the recent high-speed industrialization of Japan...
...survey was financed by the Siamese government as a supplement to the study of Siam made in 1931 by Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. Working with a staff of Siamese appointed by the government, Mr. Andrews made a thorough study of the Siamese people and of all phases of their life throughout the kingdom, in order to learn how Siamese initiative may be applied to the problem of commercial development...
...Japan, by its commercial development," says his report, "has since the middle of the last century made itself one of the foremost nations of the world, and has given a great stimulus to commercialization in all parts of Asia. The stimulus has been felt in Siam and will doubtless be increasingly powerful in time to come. Commercialization seems inevitable in Siam, and no one can doubt that it is desirable for it to proceed from Siamese initiative...
Asked by a Swiss photographer to look up from his play on the shore of an Alpine pond, Siam's canny King Ananda Mahid01,11, demanded...
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