In 1970, His Majesty expressed his wish to visit the people at a district in Phatthalung Province, where the communist terrorists infiltrated and operated in the most ferocious manner in the far south. With so much concern about the safety of HM the King, the Ministry of Interior had recommended to HM the King to wait until the situation is better. The answer given to the Ministry was that “the people have been in the risk of their safety several folds more than the risk we face because they have to live there. If they can live there, why we would become so coward even to make a visit to see how bad or good condition they are in?