Less than a month after the article, "The Citizenry Must Advance appeared, Wichit's newspaper writing was reflecting a far more noticeable anti-government bias, a development which was linked to his clandestine involvement with the royalist opposition group reported in the government's secret reports. On 31 August, Wichit used his Thai mai editorial column to warn the government that if it did anything to reduce the honour and prestige of either the Buddhist religion or the monarchy, "the whole country would be up in arms Furthermore he claimed that since the change in administration foreign diplomats had been paying close attention to the political situation in Siam to see whether the new government would try to emulate Russian communism or establish a fascist dictatorship. In his own view, these political systems were totally unsuited to Thai conditions and he urged that any attempts to establish a communist or fascist regime should be fiercely resisted. Like Prince Sawat, Wichit saw the position of the king as being crucial to Siam's future, and argued that the monarch had to be given a more significant role under the new constitution if the country was to remain independent (that is, Thai)