"Certain people allege that I have yre confidence in the Com-Party and that I have even prohibited the introduction of Communistic elements to the Kuomintang. As a matter of fact, I have never supported the Communist party. As TI said, last year, in the Whampoa Military Academy, T was only inviting other minor revolutionary organizations to join hands with us in the revolutionary movement. The Communist Party were at first vity frank in their relations with us and we codd not but admit them as their aims and ours were in common. At that time, I made it a condition of their admittance that we reserved the right to suppress their movement if they should go beyond limits and act with a view to endangering the Nationalist cause and Kuomintang interests, "Now, these Communist people are adopting an aggressive attitude towards the Kuomintang so, as} leader of the National Revolution-_ ary Army, it devolves upon me to
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