The Archive · 1940

The Programme

The programme, in full, follows:

1. To adopt a policy of good neighbourliness and, through peaceful diplomacy secure the independence and integrity of China's sover-dignity and administration to enable her to share the responsibility for the establishment of permanent peace and a new order in East Asia.

2. To respect the legitimate rights and interests of friendly Powers; to readjust Sino-foreign relations; and to promote Sino-foreign friendship.

3. To unite with all friendly Powers for the purpose of counteracting the subversive and peace-disturbing activities of he Communist Internationale.

4. To rehabilitate the troops who support and national reconstruction; to pacify and settle the guerilla units; to organize a National Defence Army; and to delimit the respective function of military administration and military command with the object of destroying military dictatorship.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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