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...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
...country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your radio is insulting us and encouraging subversion...
Orangeade and Opium. The first subject Norodom took up with his people last week was foreign policy. Cambodia, he said, would join Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
Sipping orangeade (supplied by Norodom at 30? a glass), the congressmen next took part in a discussion of domestic policy, about which they had firmer ideas. The burning issues (raised by the country's 30,000 Buddhist monks) : prohibition of opium smoking, alcohol, prostitution, the slaughtering of cattle, working on Buddhist holidays. The spokesman for opium-den owners (frequented mainly by Chinese) was shouted down, and Norodom promised a ban on opium. But the use of alcohol was held to be legal because of the danger that "our peasants will ruin their health brewing their...
...respectable citizens and those who gain from Pnompenh's attractions as a wide-open city (Madame Choum intends to enlarge the city's finest brothel, now that Saigon has been shut down as a sin capital). The distinguished wife of a provincial governor snatched the microphone from Norodom's hands and told the congress: "Let's face the truth. We know it's impossible to suppress effectively prostitution in our country...