There are others who insist that, as a practical proposition, only a dictatorship can serve China in its present conditions. They point to the successful operation of dicta-worships in Turkey and Italy and the somewhat camouflaged dictator of Stalin in Soviet Russi Many of the Kuomintang leaders who have travelled in Europe during. the past year have been impressed by the success of Mussolini and Kemal Pasha and the lectures and conversations of Admiral Bristol as regards Turkey have undoubtedly been a factor in giving the impression that a dictatorship might result in a. united, reconstructed, powerful No attempt need made here to consider the personality of the dictator. It might be assumed from the general political situation that if such s system of government came into existence, the dictator would be the person who managed to control the machinery of the Kuomintang.
Those who argue in favour of such a system, particularly make the point that China must achieve opportunities be lost. results quickly or that the present all Powers are anxious at this moment to assist China toward stabilization, in the hope that further civil wars may be averted. The decentralization of authority attendant localism and the impediments to quick and efficient action inevitable in the checks and balances of democracy may prevent the consum-motion of the settlement of out-reorganization in the direction it axzencies and the modern rehabilitation of the Physical basis of life in China,
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