Word: chumphot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close parallelism between Phibun Songgram, in-&-outer and erstwhile Jap collaborator, and Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, whose undying enmity Gulliver incurred; between Pridhi Banomyong and Reldresal, Lilliputian Secretary for Private Affairs, friend and champion of the Man-Mountain; and between Siamese princes of the blood such as Prince Chumphot and the Frelock brothers, who were entrusted with the diplomatic mission into Gulliver's pockets...
...Then Phumiphon got into his Daimler and drove back to the palace, where he had another shower. What he thought of it all, none knew. Perhaps he shared the skepticism of his cousin, Prince Chumphot, who had officiated at a similar ceremony during the previous week. At its conclusion, Prince Chumphot had turned to a Western guest and said: 'I'm interested to know what you make of all this. Traditional, of course, you know. But pure superstition...
...Clouds Gather. Chumphot, Phumiphon and many of their countrymen had been strongly influenced by the West. For good & ill, Siam was changing, yet it remained outside the main patterns of transition through which its neighbors were passing. Unique in many ways, Siam was most important in the fact that it had escaped any serious contact with Western imperialism. India had been unified by imperialism and its cultures had been left more or less intact under a veneer of Westernization; its rulers in independence were trying to bring old & new together. Burma's ancient way of life had been...
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