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was approved by the Political Council when the Central
Government was in Canton. Ng Tit Shing went to Japan of
his own accord, and I know nothing about it.
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Our Comrades at Changsha love our Party very dearly
and so cannot avoid over-anxiety. They have heard rumours
alleging that I have sought freindship with Japan and put
Russia away, and therefore they put me the question straight- forwardly whether I have or no, so as to enable me to give
a detailed answer. I know very well how necessary is unity
of action in foreign policy, and have always done my utmost to preserve it. I must refrain from expressing my private opinions in this regard, as I am under the direction of the Kuomintang. Any country that has discarded Imperialism is a friend of our Party, and any which retains an Imperialistic attitude is our Party's enemy. What sort of man do you think I am? How could I possibly have dared of myself unauthorised- ly to alter the policy of the Party? After the defeat of the Revolutionists in the 2nd year of the Republic, the organs of Yuan Shi Kai misrepresented our late President as having accepted a noble order bestowed by Japan, and Mr. Chan Ying Shi and our Comrade Tai Kwai To as having become her Viscount and Baron. I still cannot repress a smile when I recall this. And it is still more funny that outsiders have taken the trouble to exaggerate the Pro-Japanese rumours into the strange supposition that I have made an alliance with Mukden and have been offered the Vice-Presidency of China and the Post of Inspector-General of nine Provinces. Blood still runs in my breast, and I have still my tongue in my mouth. But if you my Comrades can also be misled into suspecting me what more can I say or do? We have only recently fought in Chekiang a life and death battle with the troops of Mukden and Shangtung. The blood shed by our brave men cannot easily be wiped out and any attempt to libel the Generalis- simo of the Anti-Mukden Expedition as having allied with
Mukden,