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...Angkor Vat French publicity, with a few potent exceptions, is the world's worst. "Wembley" was on every man's tongue before the British Empire Exposition opened (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924) and colossally failed.? By contrast the awkwardly named Exposition des Arts Decor atijs at Paris in 1925 was almost a secret at the time, yet it touched off the bombshell of Modernistic Art, gave furniture and architecture a whirl that is dizzying people yet. So atrocious is French publicity that a broadside recently fired in English by the Ministry of Colonies begins with this sentence...
...size and importance all other manifestations held in any country, will take place this year in Paris." This statement, ludicrous as a patent medicine label, happens to be almost true. This week the French Empire stands in Paris. As an example of what has been amazingly done, the Angkor Vat (Temple of Angkor), probably the most intricate wonder of the Far East, a vast pyramid of architecture covering three and a half acres and embellished with miles of carved figures, has been reproduced in Paris, not as a model but full size, at a cost...
...Angkor in Cambodia: French Indo-China...
...nickname, "Paris of the East"? There you can sit at an iron café table, surrounded by boulevardiers who speak only French, for all the world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby is the stupendous Angkor Vat, a temple which few globe circlers see, but which ranks easily with the Taj. Down such must-be-seen or at least must-be-known-about byways Author Kirtland leads, with many a picture quite different from the stereotyped "shots" that disgrace the usual travel book...