Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite such disputes, the Ministers ended the week more cheerfully than they began-at a ball with handsome, young King Sianouk of Cambodia, while Parisians danced in the streets outside. Molotov's new mildness might be intended to help Europe's Communists after their setback in the French elections. But whatever the reason, the Four had danced through so many little difficulties in a week that they could once more tackle a really tough number: Trieste...
Austere Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Vice Admiral of France and Father Provincial (on leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...
...important recent discovers: that men now possess the technical ability to produce in great abundance the necessities of daily life, a revolutionary and quite unprecedented condition on earth; and that one man's hunger is every man's hunger. . . . A hungry man in Cambodia is a threat to the well-fed of Duluth...