Nov. 4.
It seems that General Chiang Kai-shek and Marshal Chang] Hsueh-liang have now definitely decided to meet at Tsingtao] for the discussion of the various problems affecting their future conduct of affairs. The wisdom of this decision needs no phasis for readers of this paper, It remains to express the hope that the conference will be as fruitful as the warmest admire ers of the two leaders could de-side. There can be little doubt that all who look upon the establishment of peace in China as a matter of vital importance will attach to the meeting the liveliest of hopes. Enough has been written in various quarters on the subject of the difficulties still confronting both leaders to justify the view that failure to take the elementary precaution of personally exchanging opin-fons would be tantamount to surrender to the fissiparous influences which again are actively at work. It is exceedingly difficult to believe that two men, who have just professed in the most, solemn language their deep solicitude for the welfare of China, would knowingly countenance the encouragement of signs which plainly would revive the old wearisome game of politico-military intrigue and, consequently, would intensify the present distress in the country as a whole. Moreover the seriousness of the Communist menace in the valley of the Yangtze should induce concen tration at the earliest @ possible moment on the means for protecting the rest of China against ity further ravages. Unless the Government are fully seized of the principles on which the Young Marshal proposes work in the North their efforts to deal with that menace must be necessarily restricted.
There are too the important polities! considerations latent the decision to discuss at the forthcoming 4th plenary session of the Central Executive Com. mittee the possibility of summoning. the People's National Convention and of promulgating]
permanent Constitution. order to give reality to those proceedings it is most essential that General Chiang Kai-shek should be informed on' the best Gossitle basis of the views of the leader who has, in a peculiar Reproduced with permis: sion
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