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degree. Like all prominent men in the Kuomintang Mr. Ng has to maintain the sanctity of the party
principles and the infallibility of its late
President. At the same time there are the cold
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facts that Sun Yat-sen admitted Communists to the
Kuomintang and courted the friendship of Russia,
and that armed masses means anarchy. Faced then
with the dilemme of representing Sun Yat-son
either as a knave or a fool and his revolution as
communism or no revolution at all (in the ultra-
democratic sense of that term), it is small wonder
that the spokesmen of the Kuomintang can do little
more than envelope their public in a verbal smake-
screen.
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When, however, all allowances have been
made, the anti-foreign tone of Mr. Ng's speech at
Nanking on the 9th May is very noteworthy. His
account of the pickling in sugar of the Viceroy Ip Ming-sham (Yeh Ming-chin) is a travesty of the facts, which I may refer you inter alia to pages 502-3 of H.B. Morse's "International Relations of the Chinese Empire: the period of Conflict". Also,his reiterated use of the expression "foreign devils" is intentionally insulting.
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I take this opportunity of enclosing also copy of the following documents:-
(a) Translation from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong,
of the 17th May, 1927, reporting a speech by Marshal Tseung Kai-shek on 2nd April (i.e. just prior to the anti-communist coup d'état) violently denouncing the Third International and its tools
in Wuhan
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