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Reasons for the decline in membership, said Dr. Mudge, were that 9,504 Siamese Presbyterians were transferred from the Synod of New York to the new National Christian Church of Siam; 70,693 Presbyterians were placed on the inactive or suspended list; the rolls were closed for the year before Easter when numerous new members are generally received...
...priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June from Prince Yinavara Siravadhana who took it from a Bangkok temple...
...Siam, one of the focal points of present-day anthropological interest, has been previously the subject of social study by Carle Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. Through his influence with the government this expedition was arranged. Professor Zimmerman is not the first Harvard man to mix in Siamese affairs. For many years now, the advisor to the government in the field of International Law has been a graduate of the Law School...
Before King Ananda enters the "classical college" he must go to Siam with his mother to get his crown. After that, on the Queen Mother's insistence and with the permission of the Siamese Parliament, he will spend two more years on his studies in Switzerland...
...Siam's eleven-year-old King, elf-faced Ananda Mahidol, last week got his first practical benefit from his kingship since his Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated last month (TIME, March 11). In the excitement of his ascension to the throne, Ananda, heretofore high in his classes in the Swiss school at Lausanne, which he has been attending, has fallen a little behind. Last week came examinations. A word from His Majesty was sufficient. Thereupon Queen Mother Songkla petitioned the Lausanne director of schools to excuse Ananda from taking the examination. The Siamese Legation in Switzerland repeated the request. Last week...