The Archive · 1927

Will A Mere Dictation

We know that there is a large section of the member-[ship of the Kuomintang who [not accept the proposition that Wang. Ching-wel was chosen by Dr. Sun hhis successor and who maintain that Wang with the aid of the Soong family kept such a close guard around Dr, Sun during his [Inst illness in Peking that he was tirely in their hands, This section of members also say that the famous wills of Dr, Sun are fair and full expressions of his wishes and represent only what Wang Ching-wei himself wished Dr. Sun to say. Even the fact that Wang "wrote at dictation the two famous wills" was carefully kept secret at the time of Dr. Sun's death and the public was allowed to believe that they were written in great pain and weakness by Dr. Sun, Now it has been at last openly acknowledged that Dr. Sun only dictated the wills to Wang Ching-i. Some day it may be possible [for us to learn whether or not Dr. Sun was in a physical condition to be able to know what ho was signing when Mr, Wang helped him to write his signature on these documents, Not " fow Kuomintang Jendors believe that Dr. Sun did not know what he was signing and that the two wills out of which Mr. Wang has made so much political capital were his own and not Dr. Sun's and that they are only: parts of Wang's scheme to become Sun's successor.

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

Your account