These three principles are the ultimate aim of the Kuomintang.
Their accomplishment depends upon jreumstances and conditions and one cannot say at this time whether, it will take ten or thirty or fifty years to achieve them in all their fulness, In a word, these principles; are simply meant to regenerate China as x modern state absolutely' independent and her people working out their heritage of forty-five centuries, The immediate alme are stated by! Dr. Sun in his will. The first the convocation of the People Conference or National Assembly. In this connexion, I may remark that Chinese at home and abroad military leaders and diplomatic re-Presentatives are also beginning advocate the calling of such Conference. What is this Conference? It is not to be in any. sense a parliamentary body selected by general electorate. Rather is it] the idea to have representation by classes, by interests. Take for instance, the province of Kiangsu. Instead of having a member of parliament for A district and another for B district, you will have instead representatives elected by the Chambers of Commerce of the province, those elected by the Educ tional Association, representatives couraged on the Pootung side when funds are available from taxation.
It will_be seen from the above that the Shanghai Municipality is 2 constructive attempt to establish in the vicinity of the foreign settlements of Shanghai, a municipal area which shall, in course of time, com: Pare favourably with those municipal ities which are under foreign control and to prepare a personnel and an_ administration for the taking over of the foreign areas by the Chinese Municipality without economic loss in property values) and without a lessening in municipal effectiveness when full sovereignty, is returned to China by the Powers concerned. of the labour unions, agricultural unions "and also, of course, representatives from the military and provincial government. In that way you get a truer representation and also a much more easily handled election,
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