SIAM: Flying Fops

In White Bangkok, bristling with gilded temple spires, Siam's moon-faced Premier Phya Bahol last week went to work on the lively little rebellion of King Prajadhipok's cousins, Princes Bavaradej and Sithiporn (TIME, Oct. 23). From 15 mi. to the north the young rebel fops of Siam's crack air force flew out of their Donmuang Airdrome and dropped among Bangkok's spires circulars claiming that they could take the city in two days except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal to his Cabinet...

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