One of the principal outcomes of the December Compromise was that. nearly all positions in the Government and party went to outsiders, while the active members of th party were driven away frum Nanking. The result was an undereurrent of dissatisfaction. The Right: Wing expressed its dissatisfaction by travelling aprond and attempting to settle China's international problems, while at the same time, those of that Group who had positions of authority in Canton and Hankow were sabotaging the Nanking Government by refusing to permit it to collect revenue in their territory or by non-participation in the Northern Expedition until after the fighting was over.
The Left Wing followed a different programme. Although Mr. Wang Ching-wei was in Europe, he continued to write articles and to influence the younger generation ty the necessity. of civilian Government, to opposition to neo-militarism and to the constant party purifieation methods of Nanking, which resulted only in the elimination of genuine Kuomintang' members from the Party. His doctrine may be analyzed something like this:—Any nation or any movement must have a beacon light, an ultimate goal, otherwise there is confusion of plan and purpose.
The British, for instance, assume that in law the King can do no wrong; therefore, you may appeal in British law from one court to another, but in the end, there! is a final' decision from' which there is no appeal. So, in the atholie Church, there' is the infallibility of the Pope, which ando all arguments. If you disagree with this idea, you can get out, but you cannot remain in the Church and differ; otherwise there will be confusion. We must take Sunyatsenism in just that] way. We must accept The Three People's Principles and everything: that Dr. Sun planned as right and not permit constant playing with changes, for only if we stick ty some fundamental plan, can China's problems reach a solution. Therefore, the 1924 re-organization of the Kuomintang was legal agreement with and not Communistic, because Dr. Sun did it. Therefore, all measures taken to undo the 1924 re-organization are opposed Dr. Sun's proposition and is therefore confusion, Chen Kung-po's Meteorie Rise Mr. Wang. Ching-wei attacks Nanking and Mtr. Wu Tze-hui, Nan king's "philosopher, as "muddle-hended," points to the inexplicable compremines, which have resulted only' in no-militarism and demands return to power of the Kuomin tang. In this demand, Mr, Wang Chingewoi is more than ably sup ported by an interesting and curious Political teader, Mr. Chen Kung-po.
Foreigners, who have had ex gerlence of Mr. Chen in Canton and Hankow, regard him a particularly anti-foreign and destructive. Bat political error to judge the ty and character of a Chinese leader by his attitude towards forfigners: more or less, they are all anti-oreign. Mr. Chen is very young, very intense and dramatic and. therefore when he is in a particularly bitter anti-foreign mood, his attitude appears to be vindictive. "But he is a remarkable orator, a powerful writer and an energetic party organizer. He publishes a weekly, "The Revolutionary Critic," which in three months ha" reached a circulation of more than £0,000, which means a minimum of 00,000 readers throughout China.
Students, workers, the younger officers in the army, those who were formerly Communists and are now leaderless, party workers, distressed Government officials who can no longer tolerate the confusion—all these classes turn to Mr. Chen Kung-po for leadership. Only yesterday, a conservative Kuomintang member said to me that if Wang Ching-wet and Chen Kung-po could address every city in the country, they would control the Government by sheer oratory. It is this that Nanking fears most.
The Bridge Trembles General Chiang Kai-shek never broke with the Lett Wing. He has been a bridge over which all parties moved. In the Fourth Plenary Session, the Left Wing obligingly a quorum, but he did not
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