the king strongest weapon is the threat to abdicate effect ively used several times To be really effective there must be some chance that he could put the threat into execution, is, to be able to go away or to retire to some safe place and await the same threat while he is in Bangkok is not half so effective since he lacksliberty of action. The revolutionaries have only to get hold of his person to effectively stop any kind of movement on the part of the Royalists. With the King in their 1A1n can take measures to ppress any attempted revolt su With the King at large and free to lead a revolt they have to be more cautious,