Following the opening ceremony in the morning, " preliminary conference of the Session was held in the afterscon under the chairman-of Vu Vu-jen. A total of 95 members was in attendance. The} following were elected to constitute the Presidium of the Sessi Fo, Ting Weien, "Ko Meng-ye,
chin and Cheng, C-'G. Wo, Ho Fine!
By anther reslation, the dura [tion of the Session was fixed at five days, The following six Proposals Tie vestigation Committees were thea appointed:—Party Affairs Committee: with Messrs, Tsou Tu and. Yeh Chatsang responsible for convening the. meetings Political Affairs Committee: with Mr. Lin Sen and General Lil Eickchun as\ conveners:
'3. Military' Affairs Committee: [with Generals Li Tsung-jen and (Chg Pei-te as conveners,
with Messrs, Stao "Yuan-chung a 4 Rorign Afairs "Comnittce: Yang Shu-chwang as conveners. with Messrs. Chen Kung-po and Kung as convenes, 6. Educational Affairs Commit-|< with messrs. Ching Hong-yi ne Jand Chu Chfa-hua as conveners.
The First Plenary Session of the new (4th) Central Executive and Supervisory Committees of the Party was formally opened yesterity|day morning at the auditorium of the Central Party. Headquarters.
total of 89 members of the two (Central "Committees, including ex-President Chiang Kei-shek, Acting Presidents Lin Sen and Chen Ming-shu, President Vu Vu-jen, Dr. C. Wu, Mr. Li We and Madame Wang Ching-wei, was, in attend-
of the opening ses-By, criginaly elect sion, being unable to to. indisposition, Pres Hien of the Control Yuan presided in his stead.
President Vu pointed out that the present Session owed its exist Jence not so much to gravity. of th crisis, as to the spirit of ion and mutual concession ich all Party leaders have been animated.
"The fact that, in spite of their past differences, our comrades have en able to bring to the Party unity out of disintegration, and harmony out of dissension, "shows eloquently that, within tie bond of, 'a common creed and common purpose, differences of.
Personal antipathies can never. be 9 serious as to, muke reconciliation' impossible," "President Vu pointed out.
"It therefore behoves all of us to} fda our very best. to evolve a. programme which will make possible a final solution of all the grave pro-{ [blems now confronting the nation. Only so can we live up to the high Jexpectations of the people and of Jour comrades and thus fulfill. the important mission which we have ken upon ourselves to accomplish."
(id that, in order salvation was not possible until the {Party had been unified and strengthened. This should be the guiding Principle for the present Session, Ouilining the various fundamental tasks of the Session, he pointed out that the goal of the Party was not merely the salvation and reconstrac~ tion of the nation, but, also thet Jeahancement of the welfare of all mankind. So long as the Three People's Principles remain unrealiz~ Jed, so long must. the mission of the Party be considered as unfulfilled. The present Session must "hew through a new road" for the work lof the Party, Every Party comrade must be called upon to share the colossal responsibility for the revival arty, in which lies the only Tegeneration and salvation of the nation. "We must hold firmly to the ion that our Party will give new vitality, not merely to the ation, but also to the world as fell," said President "Vu.
Secondly, in such " grave national crisic as. the present, the Session must strive, with courage and re-elution, to. sweep away and. stamp fut the various obstacles which still lcbstruct the path both of Party and national progress. Whee reforms for renovations in the organization for the Party or the Government necessary, it must effect such changes. without hesitation @r unnecessary" scruples. Where con-of struct efforts are called fr, ust address itself to. sach tasks nth the same expedition and resolution.
The structure of the government must be overhauled $0 as to render tat once simple and harmonious, working, while practicability and mediate usefaness must be aimed the formulation of government Competent. and qualified the. Government must recruited to fill the various important positions. "A. good and ficient Government should, in short, be our goal," he said.
Te may be contended, he pointed jut, that the present procedure achieving unity is not altogether free. from irregularities and partures from the law snd Party discipline. Sach a contention, though plausible, is really unwarranted. For what law can be more paramount than that dictated by the the situation and man the spirit of unity and frm ce-operation?
Contiuding, President phasized. that upon the successful fsifilment. of its mission by the present Session, will degend_ the} Jscecess not only of the Party. bat fof the nation and, even the world, jas well.
Although Mr. Sun Fo was unable to attend owing to indisposition, the ext of an address which he- was
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