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...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...
...Norodom Sihanouk, the King of Cambodia, is an unorthodox young (30) monarch who plays the saxophone and composes jazz, has a personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and an air-conditioned throne room, and refuses to wear the $15,000 diamond-studded derby inherited from his kingly grandfather. But nothing in King Norodom's career was quite so unorthodox as the way he went to war last year against the Communist enemies of his small kingdom in southern Indo-China...
...general mobilization as did Laos. If there is a menace, the people will say that the French are encircled and their end has come." Embarrassed France made concessions to ward Cambodia's full independence within the French Union. Gratified but impatient of French delay, King Norodom Sihanouk last week took the most unorthodox step of his career: he went into voluntary exile in neighboring Siam...
Cambodia (pop. 3,000,000) is one of the three Associated States of French Indo-China; its King Norodom Sihanouk Varman, visiting New York a fortnight ago, had a warning for the free world: unless the French give his people more independence "within the next few months," there is real danger that they will rebel against the present regime and become a part of the Communist-led Viet Minh. Said he: "They do not want to die for the French...
Among the world's few remaining kings, the monarchs of Southeast Asia are unique in one respect: they write music. King Phumiphon Adundet of Siam sold five songs (Falling Rain, Blue Night, etc.) to Mike Todd for his Broadway Peep Show. Phumiphon's neighbor. His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (TIME, July 21), though affairs of state keep him on the run, also composes...