 Complete the following phrase:  Luang Wichit wrote a number of popular dramas that glorified the idea of many ethnic groups belonging to a greater Thai empire and condemned the evils of European colonial rule. Irredentist and anti-French demonstrations were incessantly held around Bangkok, and in late 1940 border skirmishes erupted along the Mekong frontier. In 1941 the skirmishes turned into the smallscale 