1 On 9 November Siamese troops under the orders of Luang Pibul
Songgram. staged a successful coup d'etat and overthrew the
government of Rear-Admiral Luang Thamrong Navasvasti. Paragraph 2
of Cablegram 72, dispatched is November,
read: 'Our first impulse is to view without favour return of Pibul
to effective power. Until the situation clears, we prefer to leave
in abeyance the question of according recognition to the new
regime.'
2 Phya Prakit Kolasastr.

3 Sir Geoffrey Harington Thompson.

4 Edwin F. Stanton.