The Archive · 1938

Communists Want Party Alliance

Hankow Journal Suggests Major Change in System Of China's Government

Hankow, Mar. 29.

An alliance between all parties in China is one of three important proposals contained in a leading article to-day in the Communist Party organ, the "Hsin Hua Jih Pao." The other suggestions refer to the creation of an organ representing public opinion and the mobilization of the populace. 1 In referring to the first proposal, the newspaper states that "only, allowing the existence of one political party and refusing legal status to other parties is not permitted by realities, while the abolition of all parties and merging them into one is impossible.

"Therefore," the journal continues, "we propose the organization of a people's revolutionary alliance; in which all parties would participate, under the following three principl "1. The joint policy adopted by all parties is io be followed by individual parties.

Representatives of various parties are to organize a united admin stration to formulate an anti-Japanese programme and to readjust party affairs.

"3"+—All parties participating in the alliance are to retain their own political organizational independence

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