The Archive · 1936

Even Criminals Contribute

Similar notices appeared when the Kuomintang offices called together school teachers, bankers, the Chamber of Commerce, mass education groups and various official groups, each of which sprang into patriotic action, An analysis of the donors of money {fo the Suiyuan defence, from rich Poor, even the criminals awaiting rial, will readily suggest how the regional Kuomintang offices have directed the campaign, This {s not criticism; it is merely giving credit where credit is due. Certainly the discouraged man who is ordered ut his chin up and his shoulders back, and then begins to feel new life in his veins is Fevived, That is what the national publicity department has seceded in doing.

'Some' sneer at the $870,000 donaled by Gen. Yen Hsi-shan and assert that the only genuine response to the "one-day" movement is from those whose toes are stepped on. Again consider the news reports in' Wuhan, A missionary from Central Hunin writes that the farmers in his area know more about the aeroplanes and tanks in Suiyuan to-day than these same farmers knew (en years ago about the Kuomintang armies going north through their own province. That Is a strong statement considering the eflicieney of the Kuomintang propaganda under Borodin,

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