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Delightfully colorful as TIME usually is, I think it is rather too graphic in the March 19 issue, under FRANCE, titled "Pickled and Burned," giving the account of the funeral rites of His Late Lamented Majesty, King Samdach Preah Bat Kampuchea Sisowath of Cambodia...
...hundred weary widows completed last week some seven months of funeral rites for their eccentric Lord: His Majesty Samdach Préah Bat Kampuchéa Sisowath, later King of Cambodia (TIME, Aug. 22). Because King Sisowath's little realm on the Gulf of Siam became a French protectorate in 1863, his seven-months-old corpse was honored, last week, not only by black, flat-faced, wide-mouthed Cambodians, but by French officials whose glossy, narrow-waisted clothes spelled Paris...