Not long after the name of the country was changed, irredentist propaganda increased, the French, whose possessions were the main target of this agitation, voiced their concern to the British, claiming that the Thais "had five-year plan for the recovery of the country's historic frontiers. French fears about Thai territorial aspiration were, in fact, not new. In 1937, after learning of the Thai army map which showed Cambodia as being historically Thai territory, and hearing of Wichit's assertion that the Thai and Khmer were one and the same people, the French had warned the Phahon government against harbouring any designs on Cambodia. This warning, which was forcefully expressed in the Khmer language newspaper Nakon Wat (and translated by the military in Bangkok) stated: