According to this agent's Chinese formants, he goes on to say, Chiang has been on the verge of asking for British military assist tance in the event of a Communist rising against him in the Shanghai area, but has been successfully restrained by a group of generals who are allied with the Chinese Communist Party and the military agents of the U.S.S.R, The Han Kow administration, according to documents which Gorbatiuk claims to have received, is in an equally difficult position because its authority is undermined by Red influence.
This report makes it clear reedly that a Communist. rebut might overthrow the Nanking. regime at any moment and that de-Jay has been occasioned by no other consideration than the fear that Great Britain might give material assistance to Sun Chuan-fang if the Kuomintang were replaced by the Communist party, which would result in the complete repression of Re endeavour in the areas governed by the Nationalists within which the Communists now work freely. Gorbativk says further that, had it not been for the opposition of the many Nationalist generals who are allied with the Communists and friendly to the Soviet agents, Chiang Kai-shek would long since have tried to come to an understanding with Peking. There is every reason to believe that this, document, which is not available for publication in full, ix genuine and Gorbatiuk seems "to write with authority. these resolutions were meant for publication and it must not be assumed that Moscow believes for a. the "Communism" of the savage and degenerate rabble that has perpetrated such horrible crimes in the Southern provinces under the leadership of Soviet agents.
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