- Saranromya Palace
- July 27th 1926
In the memorandum which Your Majesty was gracious enough to send me on July 23 Your Majesty asked me to reply to the following nine Questions:
1st Question. Should the King have the right to choose any prince as his heir? If the King has this right, ought not this right to be extended to a Council of High Princes and Ministers of State in the case when the King dies without having chosen an heir? At present the King alone has the right to nominate an heir. It would be perhaps more logical to allow a Council of some sort to exercise that right when the King has not done so. This would be more consistent with the idea of an elected King.
2nd Question. Should the principle of choices be admitted at all, or ought the succession to be by birth alone, and ought there to be some amendments to the present law or not?
3rd Question. Must this country have a parliamentary system one day, and is really the Anglo-Saxon type of parliamentary government suitable to an eastern people?
4th Question. Is this country ready to have some sort
