King RAMA VIII Thiland Royal Document Signed REGENT PRIDI BANOMYONG Thia Royalty

Description: LOT-Y26. For your consideration is a rare and important royalty/nobility signed/autographed antique historic royal manuscript document / letter / commission / appointment / order / decree / proclamation, hand-signed by HRH Regent of Thailand, dated 1945. Royal award, with gold leaf illumination. This Royal Award is signed on behalf of Rama VIII (HM Ananda Mahidol, 1925 - 1946) bestowed the Chakri Mala Medal to, and promotion of, an army officer, on 1 April 1945. Signed on the monarch's behalf by the Regent of the time, Pridi Banomyong, over the Royal Seal emblem, and thus of historical interest. Countersigned by Prime Minister Khuang Aphaiwong. Royal emblem at top of document. Measures: 24 x 37 cm. Pridi Banomyong (Thai: , RTGS: Pridi Phanomyong, pronounced [pr.d p.nm.j]; 11 May 1900 2 May 1983), also known by his noble title Luang Praditmanutham (Thai: ) was a Thai politician and professor.[2]:13 As a Thai Regent, prime minister and senior statesman of Thailand, he also held multiple ministerial posts. He was a leader of the civilian wing of Khana Ratsadon, founder of University of Moral and Political Sciences and the Bank of Thailand. Born to a poor family of farmers in Ayutthaya Province, he nonetheless received a good education, becoming one of the nation's youngest barristers in 1919, at the age of nineteen. In 1920, he won scholarship to study in France, where he graduated from University of Caen with a master's degree, and completed his doctorate from University of Paris in 1927. In the same year, he co-founded Khana Ratsadon with like-minded Siamese overseas students. After returning to Thailand, still called Siam at the time, he worked as a judge, judicial secretariat, and professor. In the aftermath of 1932 Siamese Revolution, he played an important role in drafting two of the country's first constitutions, proposing a socialist economic plan. His plan was ill received, and Pridi went into a period of self-exile. On his return, he took many ministerial posts in Khana Ratsadon's governments. His significant contributions include modernizing Thai legal codes, laying the foundation for Thailand's local government system, negotiating the cancellation of unequal treaties with the West, and tax reform. Pridi diverged from Thai politician Plaek Phibunsongkhram after Plaek's apparent tendencies for dictatorship, and Pridi made a regent during 1941 to 1945, a powerless post at the time. Shortly thereafter, he became leader of the domestic Free Thai Movement during World War II. His move to legitimate Plaek's declaration of war against the Allies proved fruitful and after the war, and the King thought of him as a senior statesman. Pridi became Prime Minister for a brief period in 1946. His political opponents painted him as the mastermind behind the assassination of King Ananda Mahidol, and a coup in 1947 cost him his political power. An attempt to stage a counter-coup in 1949 failed and Pridi continued to live in exile since. He died in Paris, France in 1983, and his ashes were brought back to Thailand in 1986. His image ranged from that of an anti-monarchist democrat to a republican. The branding of Pridi as a communist and a mastermind of King Ananda's death has since been regarded as politically motivated, which his opponents continued to use even after his death. However, Pridi won every libel lawsuit in Thailand filed against those who promoted such views. He became a symbol of resistance against military dictatorships, as well as a symbol of liberalism, and Thammasat University. The centenary of his birth was celebrated by UNESCO in 2000.

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