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may happen to your life.
Secondly none of those in power has been in
any way able to penetrate the crafty and cunning tricks
of the Communists. They serve then more attentively
than a filial son or a dutiful grandson would do his
parents, and their words are specious and flattering.
When they have lightly and softly put on your head the
tall hat of the Left Winger you would think that you
are capable of the control of anything, however serious
it may be.
Thirdly, the Communists are not the same as
they were a year ago. Lr. Wong has been absent from
our nation for a year, and all he knows is that there
is still a Communist Party. For ill-health he had
a stay of 30 days in Europe, during which he took a
tour to Moscow and had an interview with all the well-
known Revolutionaries whom he had long admireed, and
spent half a month in a Russian train and on board a
Russian steamer, which took him back. Further he is still
observed with the idea which originated with our late
president of alliance with Russia and of admitting the
Communists into our Party. Why then should he listen
to the words of a few of his old and useless friends
in Shanghai and suddenly turn right out of his course?
No one could be expected to do this. Let alone Mr.
Wong whose confidence in his own judgment is more than
complete.
On the morning of the 6th Li Shek Tsang, on
his return from the house of Hung, said to me, "Wong
Ching Wai said that he would leave. Surely he should have arranged everything before he went. But he left yesterday without letting us know. How is it? He has promised to convene a Conference in Nanking on the
15th. Can he be relied on?" I smiled and replied,
"Conference
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