The Archive · 1939

Gen. Chiang Called

"Dictator"

Mr. Wang Ching-wei Assails Generalissimo And Urges His Overthrow Openly advocating for the first time the overthrow of China's "aspirant dictator," Gen. Chiang Kaishek, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, leader of the "Orthodox" Kuomintang, yesterday bitterly assailed the suppression of free speech in areas under the control of the Chungking Government.

Gen. Chiang was said by Mr. Wang to lack "even the minimum moral and ethical qualifications of the normal human being."

In his statement entitled "A New Life for the Chinese Republic," issued on the eve of the Double Tenth anniversary, Mr. Wang declared that Chinese people in the rear "are forced to burn firecrackers to celebrate victories which only exist in the newspapers while at the front they serve as cannon fodder."

Mr. Wang's advocacy of an early adoption of a constitutional Government was supported by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu, founder and leader of the Social Democratic Party of China, who in a declaration on behalf of the party declared his adherence, with his followers, to the cause of peace and the peaceful salvation of the country.—Domei.

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