Word: monophkarana
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...Cabinet members are men who as humble undersecretaries did the Princes' work. Quite unheard of outside Siam are Premier & Finance Minister Monophkarana; Foreign Minister Phya Srivisar Vacha; Defense Minister Prasertsong Coram; Minister of Interior Phya Chasaenyapati...
There also appeared in Bangkok last week a Committee of 15 about which nobody seemed to know anything except that "the Cabinet is responsible to it," according to Premier Monophkarana. Foreign correspondents, groping for familiar words in which to state so peculiar a situation, decided that the Committee of 15 is a "junta" or "dictature." His Majesty, long a public advocate of popular suffrage, welcomed rumors that the vote had been given to Siamese women last week, though by whom and for what did not appear. A theory grew that the original 70 Senators who simply took their seats will...
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