Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pictures of warriors, head-dresses, and charging knights mark the relief sculptures of Cambodia, which are on display for the month of January. All the other items will, be shown for two months, January and February...
Last April death came to the little 65-year-old body of King Sisowath II of Cambodia. It had had less & less to live for. A few years ago depression obliged it to part with 100 of its 200 wives. Last March Japanese mediators took a large part of Sisowath's steaming, many-templed puppet realm away from French Indo-China, gave it to Thailand...
Thousands of yellow-clad priests escorted the jar through the streets of Cambodia's ancient capital, Pnom-Penh, to a towering, shining new pagoda. The body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules...
Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
Just how much Japan had won was not clear. Most probably she had won most of what she asked for: a strip of borderland in upper Laos province near the Burma and China lines, part of Cambodia in the south, which might make a base on the Gulf of Siam, uncomfortably close to Singapore. Most important gain of all, to Japan, was face, nearly lost during the dragged-out mediation...