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...land of Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000) stands the best chance of survival. It is rich in rice, rubber, tobacco, teak, pepper and well-watered soil, has only a small Communist movement, and its devoutly Buddhist people are homogeneous. But among its most important assets is its young King Norodom Sihanouk...
Swallows in the Palace. At 32, King Norodom is plump, with thick black hair and a taste for black knitted ties. At his palace, an elegant blend of saffron and apricot coloring, King Norodom maintains a stable of thoroughbred horses, ceremonial elephants and a personal troupe of 50 dancing girls. While swallows dart freely above him. King Norodom will often play the saxophone, or conduct his own personal orchestra. He also writes movie scripts and produces them, occasionally playing the lead himself. Once he was great as a mad scientist, turning human victims into zombies at the prick...
...three Associated States. The French established their protectorate in 1863, but decided to leave the easygoing Cambodians pretty much on their own, to trade contentedly in pepper and corn, grow rice and worship Buddha in the shade. When the Communist guerrillas arose in 1952, plump young King Norodom Sihanouk forswore his love songs, his saxophone, his personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and led his 12,000-man army and his war elephants against the Reds. In 1953, King Norodom took himself off to Thailand, vowing not to return until the French gave him more independence-which the French promptly...
...hours' notice, newsmen were called to Saigon's colonnaded Palais Norodom, the seat of French government in Indo-China. There one day last week, beneath whirring fans and a lacquer painting of junks, they were confronted by the two top Frenchmen in Asia: Commanding General Henri Eugene Navarre, and Maurice Dejean, the Commissioner General...
...many advantages, but from which they may secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...