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...Siamese had waited long and impatiently for Ananda's brother Phumiphon Aduladet to return to his throne and light the pyre. Three times in the last three years the young (22) King had been rumored on the way home from the villa in Lausanne, Switzerland to which he went two months after his brother's death. Three times something (a Siamese coup, an automobile accident or a mere change of plans) had interfered. Meanwhile, as the King spent his days going to school, organizing a swing band, tinkering with his cameras and driving his cars from Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Homing Bird | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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