Word: siam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened in Siam after Hoover-times has never been better or more authoritatively described than last week in the abdication of His Majesty. For the past year the King and Queen have been living amid England's idyllic countryside, as happy as Mr. & Mrs. James J. Walker and others who find their homelands in 1935 simply too tiresome. Last week when correspondents rushed to Knowle House, rented from Sir Eric Bonham, they were greeted by King Prajadhipok's dapper young secretary, wearing grey flannel trousers and a pullover beneath his coat...
...Well, it's over now," said the secretary. "If I may coin a phrase, the King signed his abdication at 1:45 with 'sad or unhappy relief,' certainly with relief. Here it is. He is no longer King of Siam but to us he will always be King...
...behalf; if any one should use my name in this connection it must be understood that it would be without my agreement, approval or support My deepest regret is that I no longer will be able to serve my people and my country. . . . I can but pray that Siam may have prosperity and that the Siamese people may have happiness...
...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...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...