To one who is strongly in favour of civilian Government and who believes in the future of the Kuomintang, the whole controversy is futile. Why should Marshal Feng negotiate for friendly relations with Kai-shek. I thought shek was Govern: of which he ly a member in charge of military affairs. Ts negotiate, not Nationalist military men. Tachuns send delegates from camp to camp, but the Kuomintang insists upon adherence to certain principles. Are we to assume then that for the sake of winning the war tuchunism has returned to Kuomintang territory, If, then, it is not tuchunism but genuine adherence to Kuomi tang principles, should not Marshal Fong declare himself explicitly on. the subject of his adherence and subordination to the Party? That means an, immediate breach with Hankow aiid a declaration of anti-
Communism. It means that he must purge his ranks of all Communist folements and of Russian Communist propagandists, for so the Party has ordered. Can' General Chiang. Ki shek form a union with Marsh:
Feng Vu-hsiang until he has done Ferthermore, why are Marshal Ferig's adherents in Shanghai and throughout Kuomintang territory so active in promoting firn as or indivindal rather than striving for the success of the Party and the sacrifice of all personalities in the interests of the Party? Why do they play their own game at the possible risk of the Party's future? Why are they flirting with political parties in Japan over the beads the officially delegated representa. {tives of the Kuomintang Party one {the Nationalist Government? In word, I put these questions straight from the shoulder, without eguivocation, without the new dialectic logical method which "the Com: munists are evolving: Is Marshal Feng and are his adherents obedient to the Party or are they adherents to Neo-Militarism and all that that implies?
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