Retention of the yuan system, first introduced when the Nationalist Govercment was established here in 1927, was decided by the Central Political Conference in its second session today.
Instead of nine ministries, however, 14 ministries will come under the administration of the Executive Yuan, while the formerly independent Military Affairs Commission will rank with the various yuan in the form of a National Defence Council subject to the authority of the President.
The latter measure was held here to constitute a concrete evidence of the new Government's determination to destroy military dictatorship permitted under the former system.
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