Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight months before). After a day in Burma, he traded his big Constellation for a lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively to complaints against French interference by young, popular King Norodom Sihanouk.* In the afternoon, back in his Constellation, Dulles took off for the intrigue-ridden South Viet Nam capital of Saigon to promise U.S. support to doughty little Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. From Saigon he flew to Manila for a round of diplomatic calls and a two-hour-and-ten-minute (without notes...
...siesta time in Pnompenh, the capital of faraway Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000). No tamarind leaves stirred in the bright blue sky. In the monasteries saffron-robed Buddhist monks recited their scriptures; in the shuttered bazaars few bothered to tune their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...
...read your Feb. 21 article, "Royal Popularity," with great interest. The article is done accurately, shows comprehension, and gives a clear and exact picture of the political situation in Cambodia, and an impartial description of the personality of our venerated sovereign, King Norodom Sihanouk . . . Would you allow me an annotation concerning the general elections in Cambodia? . . . His Majesty decided to hold the elections (in April) of his own free will because he thinks internal order and security is re-established now that the Viet Minh troops have withdrawn...
...Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000) stands the best chance of survival. It is rich in rice, rubber, tobacco, teak, pepper and well-watered soil, has only a small Communist movement, and its devoutly Buddhist people are homogeneous. But among its most important assets is its young King Norodom Sihanouk...
...three Associated States. The French established their protectorate in 1863, but decided to leave the easygoing Cambodians pretty much on their own, to trade contentedly in pepper and corn, grow rice and worship Buddha in the shade. When the Communist guerrillas arose in 1952, plump young King Norodom Sihanouk forswore his love songs, his saxophone, his personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and led his 12,000-man army and his war elephants against the Reds. In 1953, King Norodom took himself off to Thailand, vowing not to return until the French gave him more independence-which the French promptly...