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...under my name!" Excerpts from what is perhaps history's most urbane and informative abdication: "When Phya Bahol and his associates seized power by military force on June 24, 1932, they invited me to remain as a constitutional king. I accepted the invitation on the understanding that Bahol and his associates would establish a constitution on the same lines as in all other countries with constitutional governments of that kind so the people would have a right to have a voice in administration and in matters of policy affecting the welfare of the people...
...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...White Bangkok, bristling with gilded temple spires, Siam's moon-faced Premier Phya Bahol last week went to work on the lively little rebellion of King Prajadhipok's cousins, Princes Bavaradej and Sithiporn (TIME, Oct. 23). From 15 mi. to the north the young rebel fops of Siam's crack air force flew out of their Donmuang Airdrome and dropped among Bangkok's spires circulars claiming that they could take the city in two days except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal...
...previous revolutions, Their Majesties were out of Bangkok at a seaside resort last week when the trouble began. "This will not be another bloodless revolution!" proclaimed the Cabinet of Premier Phya Bahol at Bangkok, soon made good their threat by shooting down two rebel planes, one of which crashed in the Me Nam River hard by the Royal Palace. When the rebel Army reached Bangkok's gates, Premier Phya Bahol defiantly announced, "You have until 3 p. m. to depart." After that the Government's artillery opened fire and censorship shut down tight. Europeans who fled from Bangkok...
...There will be no Communism in Siam so long as I am in power," said Phya Bahol. Ousted conservative ministers' resignations were accepted, but because Siamese like to do things nicely, each was publicly thanked "for his services to the country...