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...King* succeeded his grandfather, King Sisowath II, in 1941. The Japanese army which occupied Pnompenh, kept its royal prisoner in his gilded cage; real power in Cambodia was exercised by a shifty-eyed demagogue and Japanese puppet named Son Ngoc Thanh. After V-J day, Puppet Son Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver...
...Indo-China lies Cambodia, southernmost of the three states (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) that make up the French Indo-Chinese Union. Cambodia, too, has come in for its share of strife, at the hands of some 1,800 guerrilla bandits led by an anti-French demagogue named Son Ngoc Thanh. Like Ho Chi Minh's rebels to the north, Son Ngoc Thanh's men are ostensibly non-Communist nationalists, but they are glad to accept Communist help...
Trusted Servant. Among the servants in the palace was a dark, hollow-cheeked 18-year-old, Pham Ngoc Lan, whom Commissioner de Raymond affectionately nicknamed le petit Tho (Little Tho). He had come into the Commissioner's service last August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where...
...Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...
Chubby, cheerful Bishop Pham Ngoc Chi celebrated the occasion by smoking his first cigarette in 23 years. At lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane. After lunch, Bishop Le Huu Tu set out for his own see of Phat Diem aboard one of the principality's boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet...