Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composed of the old colonial provinces of Cochin-China, Annam and Tonkin, and run by an autonomous federal government. To continue as French protectorates with semi-autonomous status are the remaining two provinces: Laos, the land with the three-headed elephant in its flag (TIME, Aug. 1) and Cambodia, ruled by young (26) King Norodom Sihanouk...
...subject of his lecture will be "Sacred Indian Architecture in Cambodia." A film, "Temples of Angkor," will illustrate the talk. The lecture, which is sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, will be open to the public without charge...
Winant was at Chequers on Dec. 7, 1941, having already learned through Intelligence sources that two Japanese convoys, 63 transports and warships, had been sighted off Cambodia. He found Prime Minister Churchill at lunch time, walking up & down outside the entrance door. The British feared a Japanese attack on Siam or British territory, in which case they would be forced into an Asiatic war without...
...conference strained over discords. India's Moslem League boycotted it, but the delegates from other heavily Moslem nations ignored the League's protests over their presence.* Vietnamese delegates called Cambodians "French puppets" and drew a retort from Her Highness You Pan Tror, a stocky, swarthy Princess, that Cambodia would have nothing to do with Viet Nam. Princess You also quarreled loudly with her interpreter (the conference's many voices were translated into Asia's lingua franca-English...
TIME (May 27) says Barbara Button's shorts would shock the President of France. LIFE the same day says it was the King of Cambodia...