The attitude both of the Provincial and Central Governments has been of complete suppression, traceable to a large extent to a Communist complex acquired in 1027" and strengthened in, 1931," Since those days any active union or organization of students has been discouraged, not banned. 'The conviction, real' or assumed, that any student' activity must, ipso facto, be Communistic, and algo' the desire to exert a sort of faselstic control over students, have resulted in official orders that student organization "for disturbance" shall be allowed el thet inside or outside the campus, Local authorities, sometimes going into hiding of crisis, as did those In Peiping December, are left to decid whether or not, an organization "for disturbance" usually reach a conclusion in the affirmative, Only in Hunan and Kiangsi, removed from immediate Japanese influence and slowly recovering from the effects of Communistic occupation for years, have these suppressive measures been adequate. 'There It only too easy to put any student movement into disfavour with the Whole populace by dubbing It Red, In addition, by continuous propaganda and by' forced attendance for five months in military training camps for all senfor middle schoo! students, spirit of fascism has been engendered, showing itself most plainly when students rise {o attention at the mention of the name of Gen. Chi
artleipation in the December move-Kal. The Changsha students* ment amounted only to a most poaceful and "mild parade one day, and Included not more than half of the students Ju the city.
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