Word: mahidol
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...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...
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...
...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...carven prayer wheels. They and all Siam, especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...