Word: phumiphon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishing an army dictatorship than in making democracy work. "Government leaders just like to talk about democracy," a Bangkok university student complained last week. "They spell it out with their hands, and rub it out with their feet." Most Siamese wish fondly that cowlicked, 21-year-old little King Phumiphon (pronounced Poomeepone) would return from his voluntary exile in Switzerland, where he spends his time writing songs. His 'Tis Sundown and Rainfall are enthusiastically sung by Siamese students everywhere and played frequently in Bangkok nightclubs. Sample...
...Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...
...King Phumiphon Aduldet of Siam, brother of the murdered King Ananda Mahidol, planned to get away for a rest. The young Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Golden Umbrellas decided Switzerland was the best place...
Meanwhile, Ananda's uneasy successor, his younger brother Phumiphon, prepared to leave Siam to "finish his studies" in Switzerland. Ananda had been about to leave when he was shot...
...Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament met and chose his brother, Prince Phumiphon (pronounced: Poomipon) Aduldet, 18, as King...