The Archive · 1927

Mr. Sun Fo Minister of Communications

Mr. Wang Pei-chun Minister of Justice:

Mr. Wang Chung-hui Chancellor of the National University Council Mr, Tsai Yuen-pei.

Supervising these ministries will be a Standing Committee of five members consisting of Wang Ching-wei, Hu Han-min, Tan Yen-kai, Tsai Veen-pei and Li Lich-chu The real purpose of this small committee is to avoid the conflict which attempt to select a president might engender. Messrs. Wang. Ching-wei and Hu Han-min will for ome time be absent, thus bringing the: Standing Committee as an actriality down to three working members. These with the Ministers will constitute the Executive. of the Government.

The Military Counctt The legislative authority of the Goternment will be. vested in Political Council of 47 members the names of which have been one nounced, This Political Council contains' representation, from the. three factions of the party on a fairly basis and includes the principal military leaders, A. Milite ary Council has also been appoint ed of 67 members, but it will be managed by a presidium of 14 mom= ders consisting of@Pei Chung-holy, Chung-jen, Hw Li

Han-min, 'Chiang' Kal Tang Song-chi, Chen Zung-yun,. Yang Shu-chuang (Navy), Yen Shih-shan, Beng -Yuchsiang_ and. Tan. Yen-k y-will be noticed: from the above, ist "of mames that the working cup on the Council will be rathe all as a large number of members fare stationed too distant from Nan= king to be uble to attend meetin The Nanking Government comes out "frankly as an opponent Communism. There is-apparently mincing of words, the history of the relationship between the Kuo mintang and the Communists, belga frankly "tated in a manifesto which provided in translation by: the Kuo Min News Agency. In nection with this manifesto att tion can be called to the fact that none of the notorious Communist leaders, whose names appeared 49 often in relation to the Nationalist Government both at Canton" and Hankow, appear in any of the com mittees or councils. appointed—at Nanking during the past week. The rinnife'to is given in full because isa document of importance from the standpoint of the—political position of the present and previous tionalist Governments:

The Manifesto 'The Kuomintang, as a Nationalise Revolutionary party, was firat organized by our late leader, Dr. Sun; under the name of Shun-chun-hui.' Tt was later reorganized, and fat different periods, had assumed the names of Tung-men Nationalist Party and Chun Hwa Revolutionary Party, until the 9th year of the Republic (1920) when it underwent final reorganization, under present name, the Kuomintang of China.

In 1924, our larg leader decided upon a policy of admitting members lof the Communist Party' into. the Kuomintang. The idea which prompted our late leader to. the adoption of this policy was founded fon the. realization of the danger that must entail from a wholesale in. portation of the totally alien theory and ill-suited policy of Marx. and Lenin. "Te was to prevent such fortunate possibility of an erroneous ingnosis, that he decided to open Kuomintang membership to followfers of communism—that they may Yet have opportunity to realize the [comparative feasibility of the "Three People's Principles" to the Class Struggle doctrine of Marx and the

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