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...River of Perfumes, to the forbidden city of Hué, over the walls of the Red City and into the white dragon-eaved Palace. There, last week, among his jazz records, his ping-pong tables, his radio and his detective stories, it found and smote that gloomy youth, Bao Dai, hereditary Emperor of Annam, Son of Heaven, Absolute Master and Father and Mother of his People-and French puppet. Too bored to look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself be crammed with a good French education and good French...
...Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha
Showering her choicest honors on a beaming, bewildered Chinese last week. Dai Nippon or Great Japan asked in effect, "What have you got to have that I haven't got to give...
When his father died in 1925 the French returned Bao Dai to Hue, crowned him in 1926, appointed a Regent and rushed him back to a town house in Paris where he played more ping pong, rounded out his magnificent collection of phonograph disks. Last week he disappeared with finality into the Forbidden City where (etiquet decrees) the Emperor of Annam must live invisible to his subjects, remote, mysterious, awesome...
Also invisible is the Young Annamite Party, driven into hiding by the French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...