Irredentism :Thai Nationalist Feelings(01)
Perhaps the most significant of all aspects of Thai nationalist feeling during the first Administration of PM Phibunsonggram (in the period between 1938 to 1944) was the propensity to irredentism which was shared mainly by young officers in the Navy and the Army.
There were two sides to this irredentism. The more prominent had to do with the recovery of the various territories which Thailand had been obliged, virtually at the point of a word, to surrender to France in the course of the previous 50 years or so. The policy of France towards Thailand had, in the main, been seen as harsh and overbearing.
Thais remembered with anger and bitterness the incident in 1893, when French gunboats forced a passages up the Chao Phraya River to Bangkok and when terms, involving cession of territory, were dictated to the Thai government under the threat of bombardment of their capital.
Historical experience thus contributed to the Thai’s hatred of the French. There had continued to exist among the Thais an irredentist feeling directed against France and aiming at the recovery of those areas given up to it at one time or another.
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