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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1980..
The fourth of
...
articles on
The Chinese Revolution
Во
The last article describedness of owning land. Their in-based fficit on the bleak and re- how, Chiang Kai-Shek became terest lay in big business and mole town of Chungking ss. Its master of China but never see that rural discontent, if not the end of the war the capital they were intelligent enough' tỏ | capital, Life had been hard. At subdued the. Chinese Com-checked, could overthrow the was moved back to Nanking. munista.
whole system. But, powerful as Omelals and generals went on a The Koumintang ruled China strong enough to counter the In-Government seemed to lose all they were, they were still not grand spree of dissipation." The for over 20 years-from 1927 nuence of the clique which until last year. The type of Gov-sprang from
power of self-disipline. Perhaps the small rural never in modern history has M.rnment which they set-up landlords. These cliques blocked Government been
a very curious ono. It was a kind every
corrupt. De-of Fascism before Fafcitm was form.
move towards land re- The public interest was consis last heard of in the West, It is always
Chiang Kai-shck
tently betrayed for private gain. new
said in the present century, the
To win a short term gain the Kuomintang leaders Chinese have borrowed most of
dissipated their_political institutions from
even their own long-term In- the West. This is not altogether
terests. In the pursuit of wealth truc. However undesirable the | Kuomintang's system 'may have been it was an original invention by China.
Brussels, March 25. The Belgian Prince Regent, Charles, tonight invited Albert Deveze, Liberal fence Minister in the Government, to form a Cabinet.
M. Devezo agreed to from o Cabinet.
try to
of o
Belgium, in the throes crisis over King Leopold's return, has been without a government since the Liberal-Catholle coalf- tion under M. Gaston Eyskens resigned a week ago.
It was learned on good authori ty that M. Deveze would try to form a Catholic-Liberal-Socialist coalition which would bring King Leopold back to the throne, only to abdicate after a few months in favour of his son, Priner Baudouin,
M. Deveze is the third states- man to accept "mission of in-
10-year-old
formation" to try and form a government. Two Catholics have falled the former Premier, M. Eyakens, and 80-year-old Count Henri Carton de Wiart.
The Social Christian (Catholic) Party, which unreservedly backs the King's return, carller tonight that it was ready to form a single Party govern- mont.
i
.
By Windrush
САМС
the
they threw their prestige reck- lessly away and made their even=" from their class and was sym-
tual doom certain Their armies in the field. Infected by The Kuomintang Government pathetic to them. Even in 1934 oxample of their leaders, ceased was a party dictatorship. The
the League of Nations Commis to fight the Communists, and in- Kuomintang always posed
sion warned him solemnly of the stead sold to the Communists the that eventually China Wes to
danger of not supporting Innd guns and ammunition which had still set Mis face been Bent to the Kuomintang have a fully democratic Gov-reform he
19** | against it.
from America. The Commu- crnment. But for the interven-
nlats had won Manchuria by the ing period it was to be under Moral collapse
autumn of 1948. Nanking fell Kuomintang itself Kuomintang "tutelage". The democratic
was a partly
which in the end in April 1940. By the end of the ruled
body. But #
ruined him. The grievances of year the Communists had chased by cliques
the the peasantry.
the Kuomintang from the main- und by
were the real of the Each clique stood for artillery
land. It must be admitted that Communists. Army.
peasants they could the achievement of the Commu- rather different ideas. No clique From the
ruise endless armies. The Kuo-nist Party in China has been very prevall Was strong enough
extraordinary. over the Shek, as Party Leader, kept his countless campaigns, In spite of
others. Chiang Kai-mintang wore power by balancing the cliques its immense superiority in arms and playing one off against the it could not bring the civil war to a close. Then the Kuomintang became involved
with in war
other.
to
WES
kind
Out-
It was this
itself
cut" by
Japan. For a time the civil wars
In a
The Kuomintang tried to build Pa a modern style government.
were suspended and Kuomintang announced They modernised the law. They
modernised the banks and cur- and Communists. Joined rency. They tried to industrialise coalition. But long before the end of the war the coalition had China. They established A of halfbaked Socialism.
broken down. War had, however, wardly, up to the outbreak of strengthened the Communists in war with Jupan in 1937, they the eyes of the country. It had exhausted the Kuomintang seemed to be making headway,
morally Their prestige In the world grew high. But they never dealt with
fatal problem, one
and this Anally overthrew them.
The Catholles hold an overall majority in the Senate but are two votes short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
A
Dissolution
Catholic spokesman said that if an all-Catholle Govern- mont failed to get Parliamen- tary support they would favour dissolution of Parliament and new elections.
The Peasant
This problem was the condi- tion of the Chinese peasant.
Average
torian to
"It will be hard for the his explain the comple teness of this moral collapse of the Kuomintang in the post-war years. During the war it had
W. GERMAN TRADE DILEMMA
Western
(To be continued)
Post-war U.S. peace plans published
Washington, March 25. The State Department today published secret tentative post- war peace plans indicating that some top-level American plan- ners had thought the United States and Russia would. co- operate in solving post-war problems.
But one document--a 1943 re- port of n Departmental Planning Committee-forecast that in the event of Blg Power friction, Ger- would hold a balance of many
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M. Franz Van Cauwelnert, Pre-Most of South China is cultivat- sident of the Chamber of De-ed under a landlord system. Not putles, and prominent leader of only dues cach peasant family the Catholic Party said tonight have a pathetically small farm. that his Party was ready to take It had until recently to pay half Its responsibility and form an or more than half the minimum all-Catholic government.
crop to the landlard as rent. Not An official communique later far from Hong Kong the size of
Russia would then be in a'pasi- lonight stated that the present the
Frankfurt, March 25. farm was about
tion to use the Communists caretaker Fremler, M. Eyskens, three-fifths of an acre. The
Germany may strengthen Germany, to foment and M. Deveze had conferred family cultivating this paid 70 threaten to turn toward the disorders and advance Soviet with Prince Charles at the Brus-per cent of the main crop to the Communist bloc for trade mar-alms, the report warned. sels Royal Palace.
landlord. The result was slarva-kets.
Listed as one of the peace plan- The Catholle moves followed ation and there was fierce hatred Some Western Allied officialsners in be 728-page volume was meeting today, of the Party's by the peasants against the believe such a move is imminent Alger Hiss, whose conviction for General Council, comprising its landlords, Executive Committee, representa-
as the Germans grapple with their perjury last January Sun Yat-sen had planned land tions of its Members of Parlia-reform as one of the main parts outing trade deficit with Wes-branded him as having been #
tern Europe and the United Soviet explonage agent
while ment and Provincial leaders.
of his programme, The peasant States.
holding a high State Department A statement issued afterwards was to be given his own land,
Germans They expect the said that the Party reaffirmed its which was also to be confiscated
to post. "unyielding will to ensure by nil from the
Also listed was Henry Julian Western Europe to put up or landlord or bought legal means available and in the from him at fairly low price shut up on the issue of free trade Wadleigh, formerly of the State shortest time the resumption by Formally and officially the Kuo-one of the points of the Euro- Department's Trade Agreements Section, who last year admitted the King of his constitutional
approved this pro-pean recovery programme.
pro- This ultimatum may be publish- pessing State Department secrets pressed in the referendum of amme,
of was in fact very largely in the ed in a memorandum now being to a Communist spy ring before March 12 by the
the West undisputable hand
German hearty A. Notter, a, State De hands of exactly the landlord drafted by majority of the Belgion people".
Ministry in Bonn. class whom it was proposed to Economic The proposed all-Catholic gov-dispossess.
Allied officials said they underpartment official who wrote the crnment would call a joint ses-- The Chinese landlords were stood it will reply to receat Alled narrative and had an active part in the planning, told reporters ment to decide the King's future, mer landlords of Central Europe, mic policy-Associated Press, the statement indicated-Reuter. They were a very large middle
second World War to the possibi- lity that Russia might not co- operate.
powers according to the wish ex-intang But the Kuomintang
leti
war.
sion of the two Houses of Parlia-not great landlords like the for- complaints about German econo-hat thought was given during the
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BIG FIRE RAZES PART OF TOWN
Manila, March 26. Several hundred persons RTO
He said papers were prepared on the subject, but only at the working level.
Compiled on President Tru- man's directions, the report ол -Policy---Pre-
the-Party-who-were--mostly in homeless as a result of a US$100,- Post-war-Foreign-
000 fire which yesterday razed
reported to he
Charter and about 40 other docu- ments recording peace prepara- ions from 1039 onward.--Reuter.
favour of land reform. Men part of the town of Santa Rosa, Paration" included six prelimin- like Dr. T. V. Soong, the famous about 100 miles North of Manila,ary drafts for a United Nations Finance Minister and brother-in law of Chiang Kai-shek, were One person was not interested in the petty busi-missing in the fire.
It was reported that the fire qriginated in the kitchen of the local headquarters of the Philip- pine Constabulary. The head- quarters, along with 150 - sidences, was completely destroy- ed.--Associated Press.
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