The terms Right Wing, Centre and Left Wing in the Kuomintang fare inaccurate and misleading, but must be arbitrarily used for want of better political nomenclature. There really is no basic difference of principle between the Right and Left Wing to-day, except that the leaders of the two groups are mutually incompatible and that the younger men of the Left Wing are more thoroughly grounded in more recent revolutionary dialectics. It might perhaps be stated as a difference between the revolutionary years 1811 and 1925, except that Mr. Wang Ching-wei was an active colleague of Dr. Sun Yat-sen previous (0 1911, Both the Right and Left Wing are predominately Cantonese, while the Centre is lncgely made Up of natives of Ché- fang and Kiangsu. The assassination of Mr, Lino Chung-kai in 1925 marke the moment of the split, between the Tight and Lefe Wing Tenders, because of general reerie ruinations aa to-who did the deed, According to the Kuangsi faction and the Centre, the Left Wing is Communist; in'my own discussions, they used to be termed Semi-Com munists. The fact remains, that the Left Wing and the Communist Party of China cannot. work together, for the simple reason that the Left Wing is as opposed to Red Imperialism as to any ether form of imperialism, Western. term fogy never quite fts the Chinese situation, but the Left might be termed State Socialists, whose programme requires considerable" remoulding at the moment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.