Unless one is satisfied with futile make-believe and meekly accepts the assurance that China is now united under the single authority of Nanking, that the Nationalist commanders are not militarists but dutiful servants of the state and that there is no question of personal famibition to adjust here or elsewhere, the situation that is growing up in Peking holds forth little promise of lasting tranquility. The Shansi element is being crowded out of the administration by Nanking's appointees and is losing military. control to Pei Chung-hsi.
The best informed visitors from the South, including some of Pei's own following, are positive in their assertion that there is no chance whatever of a genuine reconciliation between the ambitious young Kuangsi leaders and Chiang Kaishek; and that, as Yen Hsi-shan becomes more and more a figurehead and Feng YN-hsiang retires modestly to the sidelines to smile on the spectacle and bide his time, the struggle for control here between Kuangsi, as represented now' by General Pei and 50,000 armed men, and Nanking, as represented by General Chiang so-pin and the growing army of important political Potentatea, will become more acute. Together with Feng Yi-hsiang on the grandstand are assembled Moscow's impatient and restive agent> who can be trusted to find ways of interfering with the game as it grows increasingly ardent.
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