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23. The original intention was that Jack CHEN should run the gency, but Raymond WONG was later put in charge because it was thought by the senior members of the NEW CHIN NEWS AGENCY in the Far East that CHEN was an anglophile,

24. In May, 1948, the Society for Cultural Relations between the people of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R. (S.C.R.) asked CHEN for his detailed impression of the 1948 Royal Academy. Later in the same year, he was asked by the S.C.R. to give two art lectures, one being on the Nineteenth Century rt Exhibition entitled the "Forerunner of Soviet Painting",

25. Jack CHEN decided in May to travel to North East China, but after many deliberations it was finally decided that he should stay in England.

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delicate source revealed that Jack CHEN had been in contact with Anna Louise STRONG in September, 1948.

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CHEN suggested at a China Campaign Committee that the committee should show full support for the Liberated Areas and the Chinese Communist Party. 28. In November, 1948, CHEN was asked to address a Watford Co-operative Society Meeting.

29. in article by CHEN on "AO TSE-TUNG" appeared in the "Statesman of Calcutta" on 7th November, 1948,

30. It was reported that CHEN spoke on China at a meeting held under the auspices of the British Communist Party, Hampstead Branch, in December, 1948. It was also reported at this time that a CHEN was a member of the Central Committee of the Artists International Society, which is affiliated to the British Communist Party.

31. In February, 1949, CHEN was booked to speak on "Chinese Historic Structure" at a meeting held under the auspices of the Hendon Branch of the British Communist Party.

32. In February, 1949, another reliable source reported that CHEN spoke at the Austrian Labour Group in London. He gave an orthodox Communist slant to his lecture entitled "The Situation in China", saying that "events in China had finally weighted the political balance against inperialism, and nothing would halt the world's development towards Socialism". He said that "the New China would be the People's democracy, controlled by the workers under the democratic government which would lead China to socialism and communism",

33. On 20th February, 1949, Jack CHEN attended the Annual Dinner of Swaraj House, the home of the more extreme Indian nationalists in the U.K. He made a short speech in which he welcomed the end of the old regime in China, and said that the political and economic power was being vested in the people instead of in a chosen few. He said there was no room for Anglo-merican exploitation in China.

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