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...Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced by the real ruler of French Indo-China, white-whiskered, punctilious Governor General Pierre Pasquier...
...last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor Bao Dai enthroned in the Palace of Supreme Peace. For hours & hours & hours His Majesty had to sit motionless, extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial Chinese etiquet, now observed exclusively at the Court of Annam, "no man's eyes may rest upon the Emperor enthroned...
...Paris, to which the French brought him when he was nine years old, jolly little Bao Dai tried his best to learn everything, mastered modern languages and mathematics, took tennis lessons from Henri Cochet, learned from stern French cavalry tutors to jump a horse. In the end His Majesty came to excel at ping pong...
...City, B. A. Booth, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, W. H. Butler, Jr., Wakefield, R. B. Canary, Bowling Green, Ohio, C. E. Carey, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, G. A. Chaffee, Warwick, R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H. Kai-Tze Chi, Washington, D. C., C. B. Colton, Dorchester, C. C. Connell, Stonington, Connecticut, Baochuen Dai, Canton, China, J. H. DeNike, Albany, New York, O. J. Didzun, Wichita Falls, Texas, R. T. Doe, Dover, New Hampshire, W. W. Drazin, Montreal, Canada, C. W. Duhig, West Somerville...
...Trung teaches that there are good and bad points in all religions. He has codified the "good" points of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity. Kao-dai is the Supreme God.* His demigods are Lao Tzu (reputed founder of Taoism), Buddha, Confucius, Jesus. A Kao-daist may thus pray in the name of his favorite demigod. Le-Van-Trung's personal demigod is Confucius. Symbol of Kao-daists is a large eye surrounded by clouds...