Phase Two: 20 June to October 1933 With the assumption of power by Phahon on 20 June 1933, it was widely thought that Pridi would be allowed to come back to Siam and play a role in the country's affairs. Since Pridi had been successfully branded as a communist by the royalists earlier in the year, rumours of his return had the effect generating uncertainty about the government's future direction. In response, Phahon hastily made a series of assurances to the palace, and the foreign business community, asserting that his administration "had no communistic leanings, land] would carry on the same moderate