The friendship which the Nationalist Party and the Nationalist verament had in the past exhibited towards the Communist Party and the Soviet Government had been due to the belief that the latter were sincere in their sympathy for thy Chinese Nationalist movement, secking freedom from bondage within fang without and an unimpeded development of China's national destiny. Recent events have fully exposed the Soviet attempts to dona. Uonalize the Nationalist movement and to convert China into a mere appanage of the Soviet Union, and their methods of destruction." Elementary considerations of self defence require the removal of ccontres of hostile activity.
June last, I informed the Soviet' authorities that, while we were compelled to take steps against
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