"Consequently we are expecting the Shanghai Municipal Council to take more effective and appropriate measures towards this end, "In this connection, we would like to suggest the inclusion of instigators of such armed crimes and of persons harbouring such criminals among members of the National Defence Committee from 30 to 75 in order to improve and deepen the collaboration between the government and the Chinese people.
This is a measure which indicates that the government is attributing growing importance to the work of the Committee which hitherto has acted merely as an advisory body but ich in future will play a large and active part in promoting the economic, military and administrative unity of the Chinese people.
Represented in the committee, moreover, are the five Yuans and all provincial and municipal bodies, Each of these representative bodies has the right to propose three candidates, one of whom is then selected by the government. Furthermore a commi: ul for Mongolian and Tibetan affairs and a commission for Chinese living abroad have each the right to propose nine candidates for the Committee, of whom the government selects three, It is intended to have only those candidates proposed for election to the Committee who have already made a name for themselves as public men of experience and capability—Trans-Ocean
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