NATIONALISM IN CAMBODIA
KING RETURNS TO CAPITAL
(Rec. 10 p.m.) BANGKOK, June 21. King Norodom, of Cambodia, suddenly returned to his country yesterday to prevent an uprising against the French by his impatient subjects, demanding independence, a member of the king’s retinue said io-
?he informant said the king had been worried for several days that the impatient subjects would in his absence commence guerrilla attacks against French troops stationed throughout Cambodia. He said the king was confident that the support of world opinion would obtain Cambodian independence within a French union, similar to India’s status within the British Commonwealth of Nations, without the necessity of bloodshed. Western obseivers believe the king’s departure may be due to the Siamese Government’s unwillingness to allow him to use Bangkok as a stage for a world propaganda campaign. •
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 10
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