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Last week, under the guidance of Prince Subha-dradis Diskul, curator of the National Museum in Bangkok, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum was setting up the first major exhibition of the art of Thailand ever to come...
Into the Interior. Then, one day in 1939, her luck changed. The blind Princess Puangmas-Phaka Diskul. cousin of the future King Phumiphon, heard about her work, asked to be admitted to the school. Soon other pupils came, and by the time the war broke out. her school was so well established that the Japanese invaders were persuaded to let it continue. When the bombs began to fall on Bangkok she gathered her pupils together and moved the school into the interior. After V-J day she led her doughty band of students back to the capital and took...
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