Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
Last week Cambodia's lingering peace was being disturbed by the trailblazers of Communism, filtering across its eastern marchlands from Red-infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied...
...many-templed Cambodian capital of Pnompenh (pop. 260,000), which a TIME correspondent visited last week. He had just sacked his Premier, Huy Kanthoul, for failing to put first things first, i.e., to get rid of Communism before getting rid of the French. Norodom shrewdly recognizes that an "independent" Cambodia would be a free gift to the Communists, if the French marched out. Last month he dismissed his nationalistic cabinet and took charge of the kingdom himself. His cabinet of princes (TIME, June 23), he announced, would stay in office for the next three years...
...Cambodia's plump, Western-minded King Norodam Sihanouk Varden, 29, repeatedly ordered Premier Huy Kanthoul to take strong measures against the rebels. But, like the rebels themselves, dictatorial Premier Huy Kanthoul was more interested in plaguing the French than in keeping out the Reds...
...hands. He fired Huy Kanthoul and appointed himself Premier. To man his new cabinet, he drafted a handful of Cambodian royalty, including (as Minister of Education) an able princess, Ping Pas Yukanthor. With the help of this "government of princes" the new Premier-King promises to clean up Cambodia within three years. At the end of that time, he plans to submit his actions to the judgment of a "people's court," with representatives of six foreign nations acting as impartial observers...