Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris' Longchamp track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
...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...
...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 the French would expect continued Cambodian loyalty in an otherwise disaffected colony. France would still control Cambodian foreign affairs, and her prewar administrators would remain as "royal advisers." But Cambodia's new status, formalized by treaty, was France's way of rewarding Cambodia's good behavior...
...That a great deal of the decoration in the interiors of Mexican churches shows Cambodian and East Indian influence, from samples brought to Mexico from the "Indies" by 16th-and 17th-Century Spanish traders...
Also shown in the display are examples of ornamental design in graphic art, a collection of silver by English eighteenth century silversmiths, early Islamic illuminations and paintings, in Krubbings of Cambodian relief sculptures, and a series of X-ray shadow-graphs, as a means of identifying painters' styles...