Chinese communists to help the royalist cause. He was said to have encouraged communist pamphleteering and agitation to create dificulties for the new administration. Bizarre as this may have seemed, it was later publicly confirmed in a round-about way by the Ban Times when it stated that the leaflets of the "Communist Party of Siam'' appeared to have been issued with the intent of putting pressure on "extremists" in the government.
In another secret report, it was implied that Wichit might have had something to do with the communist pamphlet printed in Thai English and Chinese which had appeared at the end of September The author of this report made mention of the quality of the pamphlet and then added the following remark to his superior, "l've heard it said that Luang Wichit's house was searched and he was arrested ls this true?" Admittedly, while this is not sufficient evidence to pro- vide a clear link between the pamphlet and Wichit, it is not impossible that he was involved in its production, given his links to members of the old regime. members