The Archive · 1925

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There is. no doubt that Generate Feng and Lu are absolutely sincere when they say that they are not communists, They are just "friends of the Soviet," perhaps make-be-purpose, Tieve communists when it suits their.

Feng and all of his colleagues, civil and military, forget, however, that relations with Red Russia they have played with akind of fire by which they hat never been scorched before. They are dealing with the most' expert and the most unscrupulous masters of the game of "double-cross" that the world has ever produced. They', have helped to import into China an army of professional conspira~ tors of long training in a school in which no one is ever trusted by anyone else, but in which treachery is reduced to reasonable minimum a ruthlessness of which the non-vindictive Chinese cannot. conceive, These folk have woven through every organization under their control a wed of sinister influences which, threatens' to. make Moscow absolute master of the destiny o tery officer and official in North hina. And yet they think that when they have got all they can get from Russia, have used her to crush the influence of the Occident ind Japan in this country, they can swing round and say: "Finished, rakhan, you and your friends may go hornet"

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