Charles Yost
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Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador. Following postings in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, he was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1
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Yost in the Princeton University yearbook, 1928
Ananda Mahidol
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Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he went to Switzerland when he was n
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…Raymond Albert Wheeler on the staff of Lord Louis Mountbatten in Kandy, Ceylon. He then became chargé d'affaires in Thailand during the short reign of Ananda Mahidol. Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, his assignments took him to Czechoslovakia, Austria (twice), and Greece. In 1954, he was named minister to…
Formal portrait, 1946
Rama VIII at 14 years old, in Switzerland
Thirteen year old King Ananda of Siam (left), and his brother Prince Bhumibol Adulyadej (right), inspect a model train presented to him at Saranrom Park in Bangkok in 1938
Photograph of the King in 1939