"Together with tion we hope to pursue a policy of reorganized in communications and finance, with finance first.
Jwramme includes the aboli superfluous departments and the! Jamalgamation of others. The Salt 'Administration, for instance, and the Wine and Tobacco Bureau, the Board of Audit and other organs that formerly had responsible chiefs, will now be brought under' jeentralized control in the Ministry of Finance in a manner that will dispense with sinecures.
T am assured that this will entail no change in the degree of foreign control in either the Salt or the Wine and Tobacco Bureau, will simplification in the "While, in the main, our aim be major departments of Government, yet we are trying to bring our administration up to date by including within its province schemes for [social improvement. It is useless to Jdisguise the fact that we have to recognize the power of popular movements in the economic and political world. The old Ministry Jof Agriculture and Commerce -will henceforth be known as the Ministry of Agriculture and Labour, while another department'has been created called the Ministry of Industries. 'Our economic life is run down and it is my hope that, in time, we cam instil into it fresh' vigour, which is in line with the platform of the new party that we've formed—the Hsin Kuo-chia Teng, or New Nationalist Party."
Mr. Pan Fu and other menibers Government who were pre-me to make it clear that, reorganization, even of the superficial aspect of the Government, [showed that the new administration meant business. The Premier said that he realized that in the minds of foreigners the new development ]would be obscured by a big question mark, because the attention of foreigners had been called to several rebirths and re-unifications which had invariably petered out in jealcusies and misunderstandings, Thi he acknowledged: but in Mr. Pan's view the very nature of the present change should be convincing proof that shadow play in Peking had come to an end,
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