The Archive · 1922

A Permanent Peace

Does it mean then that the Constitutionalists will not join in the general rejoicing and be satisfied that they get what they have demanded? It means that-they are glad to get it but they also want to be sure that it will not be taken away from them too soon. They want the constitution to be obeyed and Parliament to be respected and not be made the plaything of tuchuns and super-tuchuns to be dissolved and recalled at their pleasure. If reconvocation means an expression of the pleasure of tuchuns, it is not only of no value but is fully as condemnable as dissolution. They do not want the country to go through five years of; probably to go through the same turmoil for less than nothing, and} thing over again. It is precisely because they realize that the country yearns for peace that they want to see to it that it is not a patched-up peace, but a permanent peace.

I am, ete., Canton, June 3, 1922.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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