No SECRET.
Cupies to:
Canton No.139. Peking No. 33.
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14MAY 1927
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 8th April, 1927.
Sir,
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With reference to paragraph 3 of my
secret despatch of the 18th March, I hate the
Enclos Nos. 1 honour to forward translations from the Canton
Cappy to FC
vernacular press of a recent declaration by
General Tseung Kai-shek on the one hand, and on the other of an exegesis of Kuomintang his- tory by Mr. Sun Fo. Neither document is very intelligible in detail. Much is deliberate word-spinning with intent to conceal unpleasant
facts, much is sheer confusion and crudity of
thought so common to all "half-baked revolu- tionaries" (to use His Majesty's Minister's phrase) not excluding the great Sun Yat-sen himself whose "Three Aspects of Democracy" is almost comic in its blindness to the implica- tions of its own arguments. Read in the light
of actual events these documents are, however,
clear confirmation of the view expressed in the
despatch referred to above, that the Hankow clique seeks safety in division, while the Nan- chang clique seeks strength in unity of control.
Neither
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY,M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&C.
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