CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 80

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Canton No.139. Peking No. 33.

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14MAY 1927

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 8th April, 1927.

Sir,

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With reference to paragraph 3 of my

secret despatch of the 18th March, I hate the

Enclos Nos. 1 honour to forward translations from the Canton

Cappy to FC

vernacular press of a recent declaration by

General Tseung Kai-shek on the one hand, and on the other of an exegesis of Kuomintang his- tory by Mr. Sun Fo. Neither document is very intelligible in detail. Much is deliberate word-spinning with intent to conceal unpleasant

facts, much is sheer confusion and crudity of

thought so common to all "half-baked revolu- tionaries" (to use His Majesty's Minister's phrase) not excluding the great Sun Yat-sen himself whose "Three Aspects of Democracy" is almost comic in its blindness to the implica- tions of its own arguments. Read in the light

of actual events these documents are, however,

clear confirmation of the view expressed in the

despatch referred to above, that the Hankow clique seeks safety in division, while the Nan- chang clique seeks strength in unity of control.

Neither

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY,M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&C.

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