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Siam, the monarchy of songwriting King Phumiphon Adundet, may be the Communists' next objective. Siam's population (17 million) is largely Thai, and the government is torn with dissension. On the Siamese side of the Laos border there are already some 50,000 pro-Communist Chinese and Vietnamese rebels, organized and trained by Chinese and Viet Minh agents. They sit astride the traditional opium-smuggling routes, and are believed to have accumulated stocks of modern arms. Field Marshal Phibun Songgram's border guards find it prudent not to trouble them. Former Premier Pridhi Panomyong has long been...
Among the world's few remaining kings, the monarchs of Southeast Asia are unique in one respect: they write music. King Phumiphon Adundet of Siam sold five songs (Falling Rain, Blue Night, etc.) to Mike Todd for his Broadway Peep Show. Phumiphon's neighbor. His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (TIME, July 21), though affairs of state keep him on the run, also composes...
...three of Norodom's pieces: an animated waltz with a few tinkling, Cambodian effects, Berceuse; a contrasting movement, Nostalgia, and a lively beguine, Cherie. The king's music won the loudest applause of the evening. Cherie might, with popular orchestration (and perhaps another diplomatic assist) provide King Phumiphon's show tunes with some stiff competition...
...Born. To Phumiphon Adundet (Rama IX), 24, Massachusetts-born, jazz-loving King of Siam, and Queen Sirikit, 20, daughter of a Siamese diplomat: their second child, first son and crown prince. The birth of an heir to the Thai throne called for a booming 21-gun salute, traditional conch-shell music, and the proclamation of a national holiday...
...musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, her political history has been punctuated by eight coups d'etat, none of which had any profound effect on the powerless ruling House of Chakkri. Last week, young hepcat King Phumiphon Adundet,* his pretty Queen Sirikit and their eight-month-old daughter Princess Lotus Precious Stone arrived home from Switzerland to find their nation just recovering from one of the quietest coups in its history...