The Archive · 1937

On Revolutionary Bass

Perhaps this may have been due to the fact that the new government claims to be "founded on a revolutionary basis," and so patriotic demonstrations were not necessary: to call the new government into being. Though why a revolutionary basis should have been preferred "to a legal one, is not ap all clear. One would have thought that, in view of the repudiation of the Kuomintang and all its works, it would have been. imtich more convinelnge to claim that the overthrow of the Republic by the Kuomintang' in 1928 was} revolutionary and iMegal'_ act, fand that the present _govérnment was merely the continuation or establishment of the old Republic. This is.one of those numerous points that do not appear to have been thought out very carefully.

Ushed after all, The present government, as far as one can-make out, is run by a "steering committee" of five, with three commissions under it ministrative, logistative and Sua ial.

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