among members of the civilian bureaucracy and students at the Law School At the same time, three of his associates from the Paris era, Phibun, Thatsanai and Prayun, joined with junior naval officers and were able to convince a number of senior military figures, who themselves had allegedly been contemplating a coup against the state, that they must all join forces in order to change the administration so as to bring "stability and progress to the country".As these behind-the-scenes activities continued into the early months of 1932, rumours of an impending coup to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Chakri dynasty began to surface, and "a general spirit of unrest" and "nervousness" gripped the capital The threat of a possible military uprising clearly worried Prajadhipok, as evidenced by comments he made in a widely reported speech to an assembly of graduating cadets in mid-April