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among our Revolutionists will create an opportunity for
the interests of Chang Tso-lin, and this is the first
reason for our disapproval.
Though the problems of our Kuomintang have grown in
complication, yet as the intrigues of the communists for
monopolizing our Party and stirring up dissension among us,
have all been discovered, we can easily take steps to
suppress them and keep them away. If the leaders of our
Party insist on having war on account of the dispute instigated by the Communists, the latter will worm them- selves among the troops and make the responsible talented
members of both parties kill one another and treat one
another with hostility. No matter which Party turns out
victorious or whether both parties are reduced to destruct-
ion, it will only help the growth of the poisonous Commun-
ism and annihilate the talent of our Party. Thus the
dispute in our Party will create an opportunity for the
interests of the Imperialists and the Communists. This is
the second reason for our disapproval.
Since our Northern Expedition last year, several
tens of thousands of our Military Comrades in the 1st and
2nd Army Corps have either been killed or wounded, and a
still greater number of the proletariat at the front was
injured. We expected that enduring our sufferings patiently, we could accomplish our National Revolution
in the shortest possible time, when the killed would find their martyrdom an unforgotten glory and the wounded would
have their reward. If before the accomplishment of our
great enterprise, we abandon our common enemies and resort
to war against one another in our own Party, the killed
and the wounded would have sacrificed in vain, and in case
such a war is prolonged, which will increase casualties
among