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...composing love ballads, keeping race horses and elephants, a troop of dancing girls and a harem of concubines. But he was no mere playboy Oriental monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head-in-sand neutrality. Cambodia, he decided, is a monarchy...
...World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King and anti-King, but never very antiCommunist. He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French. Impatient with what he felt was Sihanouk's excessive tolerance of the French presence, Thanh mounted an armed rebellion against the King three years ago, and might have got somewhere had not King Sihanouk, by dramatically taking "political asylum" in Thailand...
...jeep crashed through the Gallieni's doors, the commission's members, along with two Communist Viet Minh liaison officers, retreated to the roof, blocking the stairs with beds and desks. The rioters assaulted the barricade, but fell back before police-thrown tear bombs...
Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung. As a special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...
...Blocked by the Soviet Union: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Jordan. Nepal, Portugal, Korea. Opposed by the West: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Mongolian People's Republic, Rumania. Up for consideration: Laos, Libya, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Viet Minh, North Korea. Not interested: Switzerland, which thinks the U.N. would "endanger our neutrality...