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Into the Interior. Then, one day in 1939, her luck changed. The blind Princess Puangmas-Phaka Diskul. cousin of the future King Phumiphon, heard about her work, asked to be admitted to the school. Soon other pupils came, and by the time the war broke out. her school was so well established that the Japanese invaders were persuaded to let it continue. When the bombs began to fall on Bangkok she gathered her pupils together and moved the school into the interior. After V-J day she led her doughty band of students back to the capital and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mission to Bangkok | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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