CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 97

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questions of the Party. In order that all outsiders may understand the reason, we have manated to secure the

report of an important speech delivered at Hankow

by Comrade Sun Fo, member of the Central Political Committee, and one of the Routine Work Officers of the Nationalist

Government under the heading of "Guidance as to the best

means of preserving the unity of the Kuomintang".

We now publish it below:

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"In November last year it was resolved at Canton by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and the Political Council that in view of the development of the situation, the Central Department of the Party and the Nationalist Government should be removed to Wuhan,

Several members of the Central Executive Committee and

several Ministers of the Nationalist Government were

specially sent there to have the necessary preparations made. Thus the resolution as regards the removal to Hupeh of the Central Kuomintang Department and the Nationalist Government became known prematurely to all at home and abroad. Before the Party and the Government

left Canton for the North, an official telegram was also

wired to all directions, declaring that they would start

on their hourney for Hupeh before New Year's Day of the

16th year (1927). No questions arose on the way.

way. But

the parties of our colleagues who set out later, did j

not reach Nanchang until the end of last year, and therefore

they held a Political Meeting there, at which a resolution

was suddenly passed that the Party and Government should

be established at Nanchang instead of in Hupeh. This

led to the work of the Party and Government lying suspended for two months, and seriously affected our political

position as we were unable to get a decision on many

important