Will Hu Han-min's Departure Lead to Collapse? rose Ovr Own Conearoncen?
Canton, June 13.
Quietly yet exmnestly the directors of state affairs in the South are pondering the impasse occasioned by Ho Ying-ching's reluspl to accede in full to the demands of the Japanese military. Only by cessation of hoslies fu the civil war can a show of resistance be made, they agree, and unless Soviet Russia, be it open= ly, oF behind the scenes, takes a part, China cannot make successful stand in the threatened war with Japan. As individuals expressions of opinion have been rendered, collectively there have no formal deliberations.
"Advocates of a greater centralization of the powers that are of na-tonal concern are grieved that differences with an outside Power should come at this time, since, if the Gifferentes cannot be adjusted, the culmination "of the centralization Project will be retarded. How be it these advocates are not relaxing their efforts to divest the 24 states of those powers. which they have been wielding which the National Government rightfully should wield.
Even Chao Lu and Hsiao Facchen, loudest declaimers of the unfitness of the Nanking regime to dictate to the provinces have been silenced. With their banner-bearer, Hu Han-min, en absentee, they are voiceless. The con sensus of southern official opinion is that the tearing apart of the struct. lure of the Southwest Government should not be by precipitate action. On the other hand all are in accord to this proposition: the Southwest Government will only execute the Jaws already pasted; there shall be no initiation of legislation by tts Political Council. That in iteelt is first step in acceding to Nanking's will 'A concrete case has come up at a test of the sincerity of the Canton men of politics. The Southwest Administrative Council was to. have way the Council decided, the losing, party would surely carry their case' up to Nankng, ere is no telling but the National Government would then reverse the judgment of the Council. For that reason the Council has turned the case over to the Commissioner of Internal Affairs and will have nothing more to do with is
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