CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 98

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important questions from the Nationalist Goverment

directly.

In the Party there also arose a question of

paramount importance, the question of the unification of the Party much urged by the Advisory Boards. A large portion of the staffs of the Central Kuomintang Department and the Nationalist Government has already established

itself at Wuhan, and since the occupation of Wuhan by the Revolutionary Armies, we have had many suggestions for reorganisation put forward for our consideration and approval. But as a grave diplomatic situation arose on January the 3rd., we again had to shoulder definite responsibility for dealing with it.

All these circumstances have split the centre

of our Government into two, one in Wuhan and one in Nan-chang,-

a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. No revolutionary movement can be developed without a unified governing body to lead it. If the staffs of the huomintang and the Government should not be centralised in one place, contradiction and conflict would easily arise in case of any important enterprise and prove a great obstacle in

All our the way of the progress of the Revolution. comrades at Wunan are aware of the lack of unity among the governing bodies and this diseased state of affairs stands in very urgent need of a remedy. I will now tell you from what authority the control of the Party is derived. By the rules of the Party made at the 1st and amended at the 2nd. All-China Representative Conference, the All- China Representative Conference shall be the highest authority of the Party. But the Representative Conference only meets once a year and for a session of not more than ten days. Before and after the session of the Conference the highest authority of the Party is invested in the

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