The Archive · 1934

SUN YAT-SEN'S CODE NOT FOLLOWED

Investigator at Loss to Explain to German Professor Nanking, Nov. 27, Reporting on impressions obtain during his recent tour of Judicial in-Jspection abroad, "Mr. Tan Chen, Vice-President of the Judicial Yuan, at the weekly memorial service at the Central Party headquarters, yes terday, said that a professor in the Berlin' University asked him when ther the spirit of the Three People's Principles (San in Chu 1) of the late party leader (Dr. Sun Yat-gen) is embodied in the Chinese Civil Code. This question, he said, set him thinking a great deal, Ever since the establishment of the Republic, he continued, it had been the practice of the authorities to copy the laws and ordinances promulgated their predecessors. "The Civil [Code not only did not conform social conditions in this country, but also it failed to embody the princi. ples enunciated by Dr. Sun. The Party and Government must there: fore, he urged, make fundamental reforms in the laws of the country, Ju accordance with the bequeathed teachings of their late party leader "Kuo Min.

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