These questions are not only ing asked by foreign observers but by Kuomintang members. The proscribed Left and Right wings constitute the bulk of the Kuomintang membership. The centre was always opportunistic; it is now] militarized. Principal positions in the Government are being held by non-Kuomi there jans will be put into important positions. authority: has' beer transferred to military men. One Kuomintang. Jeader recently told me thet even Committee. He said that if Marshal Chang Tso-lin should be! alive, ko will be elected to the Central Executive Committee, for surely some of Nanking's allies like! General Yang Sen in Szechuan and the Chibli Party in the North are] no more nationalist than Chang! Tso-lin. When I repeated this con-ion to another leader, he said jut sareusm or even that" General "Yang. Vu-ting General Chang Hsueh-liang "would surely be elected Now, it is not the concern of any foreigner who is elected to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomingtang, but it is everyone's fright to have his lets correct Nationalism in China has come to represent the ideals of rehabilitation, reconstruction,—_unifieation 'The' realities, however, point to a revival of Tuchunism and that must noted with keen interest, The essential difference between the Kuomintang and other parties in China is that the Kuomintang, has represented itself as the party' of modernity, the party which would ut an end to feudali¢m and which would create out of chaotic C a modern state, equal in presi to other Powers, enjoying a similar} rea, man-power and economic and natural resources. No one expects that China will attain to the position of the United Stars or] Great Britain in a day or even a decade. But what one dees. expect of the Kuomintang is that it should institute such historical and social processes as will in due course produc. a modern state in Asia. In the present era, enough is known of the history of mankind to enable_ the student to be fairly guided by the past in his survey of the present. Some things never succeed histo. For instance, sock gues as the Kuomintang "ni tarists are now conducting with Chen Chiung-ming's Hakkas in Swatow, with Tang Si Hunan,' with the Chihli Tientsin, never 'a powerful nation ants are chaos, tion, disorder, insurree-
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