In the early part of the year Mr, Wang Ching-wei was absent from the Government owing to his Journey to Europe in search of recovery from his serious illness. In view of the crisis in Jehol he left Europe in February and, arriving in China in March, reassumed. his post as President of the Executive Yuan, in which capacity Me. T. V. Soong had been acting in addition, to his other "duties. On resumption of this post Mr. Wang Ching-wel made it clear that the Government were determined. to accept the ess of JJehol in a realist spirit. He form-fed the view that China had been ithe wronged victim of Japanese the aggression and recognised the value jof the League of Nations' decision fu that regard. In his early an-ouncements he stressed the need for determined resistance, but he dissented from the view that resist tance should take the actual: form Jof armed force owing to the clear inferiority of the Chinese military arrangements. Disapproving Communism and Fascism Wang Chiag-wei maintained that primary efforts should be directed to fostering and strengthening the Jdemocratic and reconstructive forces, and that there should be no thoveht of going the way of Italy fand Germany until there was evid fence that such intention was prevalent in France and England.
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