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Siam's eleven-year-old King, elf-faced Ananda Mahidol, last week got his first practical benefit from his kingship since his Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated last month (TIME, March 11). In the excitement of his ascension to the throne, Ananda, heretofore high in his classes in the Swiss school at Lausanne, which he has been attending, has fallen a little behind. Last week came examinations. A word from His Majesty was sufficient. Thereupon Queen Mother Songkla petitioned the Lausanne director of schools to excuse Ananda from taking the examination. The Siamese Legation in Switzerland repeated the request. Last week...
...Arabs under Feisal had helped the Allies on the promise of an independent Arab kingdom. Instead, the Allies gave Feisal Syria under a French mandate. When Feisal took his kingship seriously, the French kicked him out. Chastened, he was given the British mandate of Irak. Complained he: "European statesmen are like impressionist paintings. The effect at a distance is excellent...
...where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation for a cataract...
Closer and closer last week, Carol II edged from Kingship to Dictatorship. He announced that hereafter he will attend every session of the Cabinet. He called to his royal palace his old leering tutor, Professor Nicholas Jorga (the new Prime Minister) and other members of the new Cabinet. To them he said: "I have now found a group of men-yourselves-with whose co-operation I hope to realize my ideals...
...this Premier Jorga, well coached, responded: "Your Majesty's activities will not be restricted by any respect for obsolete formalities. . . . Modern kingship is founded, in the first place, upon the concentration in itself of forces for the good of the country. . . . Consequently, it is necessary to sweep away pseudo-democratic prejudices, for every politician realizes that a group of altruistic but wise men can achieve much more than the whole structure of a democracy...