ABSTRACT
Thailand's most outstanding modern conservative monarchist, M. R. Kukrit Pramot, journalist, politician, and sometime prime minister, has recognized how great a blow was suffered by the 1930s revolutionary regime through the country's enmeshment in world war, 1941-45. Ironically it was probably Anglo-American rivalry and disagreement over whether Thailand should be treated as an aggressor-state that counted most against Pridi in the end. However, what was probably crucial ultimately in bringing the Pridi-Thamrong regime down was the deplorable domestic situation in Thailand during 1947, economically and socially. The post-war treaty with the West most at issue in the economic field, which finally terminated the lengthy Anglo-Thai peace negotiations of the previous autumn, was the so-called Formal Agreement, signed in Singapore 1 January 1946.
