Huang Fu Virtually Dismissed by Generals But Strongly Backed: Feng Younger Men Favour C. T. Wang Be Geese There is a deadlock in the Nati Goverament over the question of appointing " new Minister of Foreign Aifsirs.
Mr. Huang Pu is still suppo arted by the so-called "old men" in Nanking who defy tke generals at the front and insist that Mr. Huang Fu should remain, The younger men, particularly the Anglo~ merican returned students, are support Vu-hsiang's candidate. ne Dr.
'T. Wang, who is Marshal Feng The essential facts of Mr. Huang Fu's resignation were difficult to obtain because the actual decision that he should leave Nanking was made at Hsuchowfu, Chengchow and Hsinhsiang, where General Chiang. Kai-shek and Pet Chung-hsi and Marshal" Feng Vu-hsiang met in to rearrange the ation ships of the Allied Nationalist Armies.
At these conferences and in Nanking, the possibilities of the success sion to Mr. Huang Fu were di cussed. Several names were men tiered, among them being: Mfr. Ton, Shao-yi, Dr. C. T. Wang, Mr. Chit Chao-hsin and Me, Quo Tai-chi Mr. Tong's mame was almost immediately eliminated because was felt by men who had admired him for years that it would be a Br, Huang Fu was originally an pitiful and unfitting end of a great appofitee of General Chiang Kai career to throw Mr. Tong into the shek. He was made Minister of maelstrom of the present situation, Foreign Affairs because to pull him down from his lofty assumed that he could position as philosophic censor of Japan; that is, that he could Chinese affairs to be the subordinate arrange for the Nationalist armies of the confused councils in Nanking. to march through Shantung without was further assumed that Mr. coming into conflict with Japan.
Tong would not accept the position. Mr. Chu was not considered serious-He had informed his Government that Japan would not send more ly except by those who were as than 200 troops to Tsinzn. The ippased to Dr, C, T, Wang as to conflict between the Nationalist ard Mr. Huang Fu and who were there-Japancee "troops in Tsizan led to fore seeking for someone "lse—the conclusion, in Nationalist circles, anyone else, As a matter of fact, Mr. Chu, who has been abroad that either mo arrangements had een made with Japan, or that they personally known te had been made With "irresponsible persons. The specific task, for which Mr, Huang Fu had' been made Minister of Foreign Affairs, fan open and full repudiation of Mr. had not Yen performed.
Huang Fu and would lead to a hitter quarrel with his personal The Nanking Outrage ul. Tt was therefore assume?
Previously to this, Mr. Hyang had it of Dr. C, T. got himself into "dificulsies with many elements of the Kuomintang through his sponsorship of the A Deputation to the Generals unified diplomatic and. financial policy with Peking, which would In spite of Me. Huang Fu's vers Rave meant an outward appearance tart letter' of resignation, he is of unity while the soldiers were Understood to continue to want the fighting at the front and which post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. would have helped to bolster up en Friday's meeting of "the finances when it was N Liehdesire to destroy" bail bus Than, the aettloment of the Nanking tess to change hotscs in mid-stree Outrage wih Mr. MacMurray: was ]amd suggested "that Mr, Huang unpopular because the Chinese Might be asked to reconsider. But jfferent from 44 that was definitely in opposition to the wishes of the generals at the payment of $100,000 The front, Me, Huang's friends Toney? to the "United States as determined to take a train. to security that the terma of the axree- Hauchowfy, where they might cause rent. would be. kept, Finally, Me, the reinchiet to change MacMurray's Note of May 18' considerably damaged Me, Huang Fi position because, to the Chinese mind, the implications of that note are that the United States had lost faith in the Nanking Government and would, in Tientsin, do as the Japanese have deny in "Tsinan but that the United States prefers to sue a warning before the suns are fired. To the generals at the front, it meant a complete failure all diplomatic policy, as it is always anticipated, la the Chinese mind, that when there is trouble between China and Japan, the United States will" serve as China's protector.
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