Word: prajadhipok
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Back to Bangkok from their seaside villa ventured King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni last week, thus signalizing that tranquillity had been restored after the bloody revolt led by princes of the Royal House (TIME, Oct. 23, et seq.). Duty bound to open the Siamese National Assembly last week, His Majesty consulted an astrologer as to what would be "the most propitious moment." On the astrologer's advice His Majesty opened at 11.02 a. m. sharp...
...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...
...many monarchs can take a revolution with the bland aplomb of Siam's spunky little King Prajadhipok who, hav-ng been through three in the past two years, last week faced his fourth...
When the shooting started His Majesty asked with interest who was leading the rebels. "Sire," he was told, "they are led by Prince Bavaradej. He has captured the Royal Airdrome and is marching on Bangkok." "What? Prince Bavaradej!" cried King Prajadhipok. "Inform the populace at once of my deep regret that a member of the Royal Family should be leading a revolt against the Government." Not the cynical wisecrack of a dissolute sovereign, this pronouncement reflected King Prajadhipok's knowledge that his people regard him as their deliverer from the rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes...
...gentle people. Like the rest of the world they have their political difficulties, but nobody ever gets shot. The first of recent Siamese crises occurred a year ago when a bloodless revolution shook dozens of intelligent, inbred Siamese princes out of soft government jobs but left purblind little King Prajadhipok a constitutional monarch. Next Siamese crisis occurred last April when King Prajadhipok suddenly grew nervous at the increasing "Communism" of his first Cabinet, fired the lot of them. "Premier" Laung Pravit left hastily for France and a group of staid conservatives took his place. Again there were few objections...