The excesses of the a to the closing of 27 native banks, antagonized the merchant and bank: {ing classes which had welcomed the party, frightened the foreigners, who! had taken a the Kuomintang and almost resulted in a general strike which woul: have left the city economically Jéesolate and therefore the govertment without sources of revenue.
Theories That Take Root It is only obstinate unwillingness to face facts when it is insisted that this switational movement is entire ly artificial, is fomented by Russian communists and uses only" empty. slogans. This movement may One of the chances which a revolve tionary government takes is that the! weapons it forges may not work] jaltorether with the ssientifc pre cision which the leaders anticipate for it. Nevertheless, they have to take that chance, for these weapons bring greater results een than armies. The civil administration uninitiated. But in time they take in time, they become una' the political group' dominant attempts to curb end control the forces let loose to achiev: success, they are unable to do so.
The Kuomintang, since the 1sti year of the Republic (1928) has been developing this agitstional activity, with the motif, not some economic doctrine which is for-ign to China, but a definite attack! may have to labour months t to straighten out the confi They may find themselves hamper on all sides by. the errors of thei own agitators, but the Kuomi could no more disband their agi tors than an army could disregard TNT, both perhaps equally danzcr-
'A Weapon Feared by All Keomintang leaders freely assert lat in time of war, they cannot Gemobilize their means of warfare even if the use of such means delays: some victory in diplomacy or some popularity with the better elements of the population.
For t" demobi-Ifiseation.
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