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foreign intervention en a fairly large male could effectively prevent or remedy a local condition moh
as is now pictured?
Should the Nationalists proceed to extrases, the military direction of affairs would he in the
handa of Chiang Kai-shak, a man who is described by two of his close acquaintances as a dangerous, unscrupulous adventurer of violent temperament who,
for his own purposes, has adapted the extreme
principles of Bolanavim, and who will sick at nothing
to achieve nis anda. To what extent he is in the
hands of his party or of his fissian advisers I m
unable to say •
Bat while two of the four divisions
under his cœvannd are definitely "Red" in the trus
sense of the tem, and entirely leyal to Iduself
(as I am told is the cnas), thers is little chance of his personality being eliminated until the moderate party regains control of the movement of which at prosent he is the principal figure and the mear head.
I know that a situation of the kind indiestød is visualised as a possibility by the authorities and leading nationals of at least one country in Shanghai whose interests would be very seriously affected. I knew also that a similar view is held by the Chinere to whom I have spoken, whose names are
girm
earlier in this memorandum •
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