The Archive · 1927

Common Enemies of China

ith regard to the Nationalts," we are willing to ce-operate ith any of them who are working for the welfare of China, and we have frankly said so, but} we have been unable to find Chiang Kai-shek sincere in his anti-Com? munist protestation.

"After exchanging views with) Chiang, we cannot help feeling that Nanking and Hankow are common enemies. of (China, working under Jeommon Russian direction. Bolshevism is international and is not a [Chinese issue. If the Soviet Russians jsuceeed in dominating Peking will be an: international calamity, ice Bolshevism once firmly estab-thed in China must spread further, with an inevitable reaction upon the [Western Powers. It is disappointing and discouraging that the foreign nations have not grasped this, but interpret the trouble in China as traceable to anti-foreign feeling' only, We know that our cause is and is in the best interest of China and the whole world.

Hnelieve that we shall be able to con-

Jquer this evil that the Soviet has imported into China and that, in time, the foreign nations will understand the real issues and will cooperate with a regenerated China, once more admitted to international friendship, to the advantage. of all." 5

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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