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...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
Cambodia's young Premier Norodom Sihanouk, who used to be his country's King, has a strange notion of democracy. It is the people, not Parliament. Thus he calls his people to congresses (BIG NATIONAL POPULAR MEETING AT THE ROYAL
...Many Chairs. Rising to his feet, a politician shouted: "We all agree; the Prince runs the government." But after renouncing the throne, Sihanouk had vowed not to return to high office. "I didn't walk out of my throne to climb into a Premier's armchair," said he, insisting that the "congress" choose someone else...
...little piece of paper you write down the name of your candidate," Sihanouk explained. "You give me the little papers. I give them to the King, my father, and papa makes his choice. Very simple, isn't it?" The people found it so, and in the end they asked papa to make Sihanouk Premier. Next morning they picked up their straw bedding from the floor of the Silver Pagoda and trudged homeward...
...three days the young Prince resisted the temptation and then, with no other national leaders in sight, gave in. Announced the Royal Palace: "At the people's request, [Prince] Upayuvareach Norodom Sihanouk agrees to [head] the new government...