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in our Party, and even enforce the policy of
Peasants and Workmen and have all workmen armed. The
Communists have shaken the sky with their cries in
support of the 3 gigantic policies, but we must tell
Mr. Wong with all respect that we are not like an ox
which has no understanding. Once we regarded Soviet
Russia as a god: more, we accepted the Communists as
brothers: we spoke so often of the importance of the
peasants and workmen to our Revolution, that we offended
many of our friends. But, remember, we have never
received any confidential instructions from our late
President that we must maintain our alliance with Soviet
Russia even if she wants to destroy our Kuomintang
though the Communists, (In fact this is impracticable. Destroy Kuomintang and what becomes of Sun Chung Shan's
alliance with Russia?) or that we must tolerate the
presence of the Communists in our Kuomintang even when they want a revolution against our Party, (This is alike impracticable. When this happens and the Communists
will not tolerate you who will join you to tolerate them?-) or that we should take great interest in peasants and workmen even when they support the Communists in a revolu-
tion against our Kuomintang.
He said,
There are some fine words in the Speech which Mr. Sun Chit Shang (Sun Fo) had some of his Communist
clerks to write for him in celebration of the annual
anniversary of the Ministry of Communications. "We must know that the revolution is the business of the
masses. As the masses need emancipation, they must have a revolution, and for the purpose of a revolution, they must have a Party." This means on some round-about way that if peasants and workmen want Communism, the exist- ence of the Kuomintang should not be permitted, and any
attempt