Word: siam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water...
...Commissioner to the Philippines, President Roosevelt last week made a nonpolitical, career appointment. He named Woodrow Wilson's scholarly, rufous son-in-law, Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, 54. Criminal law was Professor Sayre's course at Harvard Law School. Counseling King Rama VI of Siam on foreign relations (1923-25) gave him grounding in Oriental affairs, King Rama called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines' severance from...
...prevalent Oedipus complex, broadened to encompass resentment of authority and pompous persons in high places, is betrayed by a number of limericks which demean the King of Siam, the King of Baroda, the Queen of Baroda and other dignitaries, public and private...
...Germany; Inside Asia begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and finally Palestine...
Unlike most travel books this one really travels, loiters nowhere, observes brightly on the fly, dwells most approvingly on the efforts of Siam's progressive Government to turn that still independent country into a democracy despite Japanese example and proximity. Fly in the ointment: the Government's mechanization program is causing serious technological unemployment among elephants...