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THE CHINA MAIL,
THE KUOMINTANG
ITS ORGANISATION AND MACHINERY
·CHINA'S RULERS
Mr. Wou's book is that which deals Central Executive has, the right to not with the squabbles in the veto these decisions, but we gather Kuomintang, but with its organisa-that it very rarely dreams of doing tlon. and machinery. It is an in- so. A special, feature of the Poll- genious and complicated system,tical Council on which Mr. Woo lays which owes something to Western great stress la the Presidium-a democratic models and something to Board of five chairmen, who preside Mr. Woo, a young Chinese patriot, the Russian Soviets, The supreme over the deliberations in turn, who a graduate of Harvard, who held a authority is vested in a National must all five sign every order of the high post in the Foreign Office Congress of Representatives, which, Council, and who may introduce own initiative. under the Nationalist Government however, meets only once a year for proposals on their at Hankow, and assisted Mr. Eugene two or three weeks. Effective There would seem-to-be-a-very-good Chen in his negotiations with. Mr. power is therefore delegated to a chance of this group of five becom O'Malley in 1928, has just written Central. Executive Committee, which ing a sort of inner Cabinet, but a book on the Kuomintang and the is elected by the Congress, but fune that apparently is preferred to the Future of the Chinese Revolution. tions independently when Congress evil of having a single president He suffers from a long-winded style is not sitting., But even this body who might establish himself as an and an imperfect command of is too busy to carry on all the or autocrat.. Finally there is a Com English. But he-has-a good deal dinary administration of the party, mittee of Control, elected by the that is important to say, and he and so it appoints à Standing Com. National Congress, and invested represents a point of view of which mittee of itself, consisting of nine with the three powers of auditing comparatively little, is heard outside persons, meeting at least once a accounts, supervising Government China. He is of the Left wing of week and oftener if necessary, and party work, and prosecuting the Kuomintang, bitter against the Though this Standing Committee is offenders against party discipline. Right, friendly to the Communists, responsible to the Central Execu
- The Cult of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and anxious to work with them for tive Committee, it is pretty obvious.
The whole system, from those the moment, though in dleagreement that its subordination will be more with their ultimate aims. His posi-nominal than real. And, in fact, It governing organs at the top to the tion, in fact, is very like that of the is the nucleus of yet another and local branches at the bottom, is in- "Left wingers" in the British more powerful organ, which seems spired by an almost, fanatical re Labour movemont. The success of indeed the main directive force Inverence for ita founder, Sun Yat- the Political san, and it no doubt owes much of the Chinese revolution depends, Mr. the party. This is Woo. believes, on a firm adherence Council, composed of the nine mam its strength to the deliberate cult to the three fundamental principles bers of the Standing Committee, to of Dr. Sun, just as the Soviet laid down by Sun Yat-sen as the gether with six other persona, who system does to the cult of basis of the Kuomintang-racial are usually, we are told, Ministers, Leninis unity, popular sovereignty and the of the Nationalist Government. The will stand people's livelihood," or, pat more Political Council meets, very fretical constructive work, as distinct simply, China for the Chinese, de- quuently, and its decisions are from the propagation and conduct mocracy and Socialism. All these orders to the Government. The of a revolution, remains to be seen. he sees threatened. The expulaion
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of the Communista last your meant the break up of the united front, and the dominance in the Nationalist party of Right wing bourgeois, capitalists and millitarists 19 ominous for democracy and Social ism. Others would say, of course, that the purging of Communism and the' victory of moderation in the Kuomintang were precisely what secured the final triumph of the, Nationalist arms and may possibly bring Dr. Sun's theories into the region of practical politics. Mr. Woo wrote his book--in the bitter. ness of exile in Europe-before the victory was won; and he may now take a less pessimistic view. That we do not know; but in any case his version of the party struggles has
If your tongue is yellow and some historical value, and his estl-furred, if you are constipated, i mate of the character and strength liverish, bilious, have sick head-
flatulence. of the Left wing forces in China' aches,
ill-smelling cannot be dismissed as a mere breath, try little dose of Pin- hallucination. It should be noted kettes to-night; you'll feel ever so that, partial as he is to the Com-much better in the morning. munists; he is not altogether taken- Chemists everywhere sell Pin-¡ in by them. In discussing the kettes, the dainty little laxative great split at Hankow in 1927 he liver regulators, also post free, 60 has some blame for a section of the cents the vial, from Dr. Williams extremists who followed the Com-Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse Road, munist lead, and even tried to out- Shanghai. Herod Herod.
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But how far it the test of ppra-
The new organic law promulgated a few weeks ago, which elaborates the powers and duties of the National Government, is clearly in line with the principles of the Kuomintang (it was actually. pro- mulgated by the Kuomintang);' but | we are not quite clear about the precise relations in which the Government will now stand to the Kuomintang, whether the Kuomin- tang is expected to operate in China as the Communist Party operates in Russia, or whether it has passed body and soul into the new Constitu- tion. But in any case we miny anticipate some struggles to main- tain the democracy of checks and balances described by Mr. Woo.
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