rather to concentrate responsibility in the Premier so that for any and all mistakes or errors in the work of the Ministers the King can blame and hold entirely responsible the Premier under whose control and direction the work is carried on.
There is one danger which must be faced under such a system. It is possible that the Premier might seek to absorb so much power that he would become a rival or even overshadow the King, as was the case, for example, with the Shoguns in Japan. Although this is a possible danger, I do not feel it is a very real one under the conditions existing in Siam. unless indeed the King should be so manifestly incompetent or unfit for his duties that he ought to be stripped of power. If the Premier seemed to be scheming for personal power the King could of course always remove him. If, nevertheless, such a danger were felt to real might be guarded against by various possible methods. For instance, the Ministry of War or of National Defence might be placed directly under the King and therefore made entirely independent of the Premier. In this way the King could keep direct control of the Army and see that only officers loyal to him were appointed. Under such a scheme the Ministry of War would have to be separately budgeted for and entirely separated from the other work of government. In my opinion, however, such a precaution as keeping the Army out of the control of the Premier would under the conditions now prevailing in Siam be unnecessary.
I quite realize that there are many difficulties which must be faced in creating a form of Government by a Premier. Both the conception of making the various Ministries responsible to the
