The Archive · 1940

Standing Committee

'A standing committee of from six to eight members will be designated by. the president of the Council, hile committees of experts on Legal 'Affairs, Interior Affzirs, Foreign 'AMfairs, Military Affairs, Finance, Notional Economy, Edugation, and ther matters, will' be formed under the" Council "for investigation and planning, according to the constitu: hon, The Council's president will appoint these committees.

The members of the Council, the constitution stipulates, will have to attend meetings in person "and not be represented by proxy." Also provided for is a sterelaviat with a Secretary-General and one or two deuty Secretaries-General, Yuan System Retained Retention of the yuan system, frst Introduced when the Nationalist Gov-jerrment was established here 1927, was decided by the Central Political Conference in its second session today, Instead of nine ministries, how-fever, 14 ministries will come under the administration of the Executive Yuan, while the formerly independent Military Affairs Commission will rank with the various yuan Ju the form of a National Defence Council subject to the authority of the President.

The latter measure was held here" to constitute a conerete evidence of the new Government's determina tion to destroy military dictatorship permitted under the former system,

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