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First Things First. The King sits in his countinghouse in the many-templed Cambodian capital of Pnompenh (pop. 260,000), which a TIME correspondent visited last week. He had just sacked his Premier, Huy Kanthoul, for failing to put first things first, i.e., to get rid of Communism before getting rid of the French. Norodom shrewdly recognizes that an "independent" Cambodia would be a free gift to the Communists, if the French marched out. Last month he dismissed his nationalistic cabinet and took charge of the kingdom himself. His cabinet of princes (TIME, June 23), he announced, would stay...
Cambodia's plump, Western-minded King Norodam Sihanouk Varden, 29, repeatedly ordered Premier Huy Kanthoul to take strong measures against the rebels. But, like the rebels themselves, dictatorial Premier Huy Kanthoul was more interested in plaguing the French than in keeping out the Reds...
Last week the King decided to take matters into his own hands. He fired Huy Kanthoul and appointed himself Premier. To man his new cabinet, he drafted a handful of Cambodian royalty, including (as Minister of Education) an able princess, Ping Pas Yukanthor. With the help of this "government of princes" the new Premier-King promises to clean up Cambodia within three years. At the end of that time, he plans to submit his actions to the judgment of a "people's court," with representatives of six foreign nations acting as impartial observers...
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