CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927 — Page 95

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men killed.

That will mean the destruction root and branch

of the Chinese Kuomintang. How is it conceivable that

one section should survive singly? Our present movement

is to support the whole Kuomintang, not one section of it,

nor any individual members of it. We are supporting

the principles and doctrines of the Kuomintang, and not

what any section or individual in it advocates. What

we are fighting for is the authority of the Party, the

whole Party. Authority should be vested in the whole

Kuomintang and not in any section or individual in it.

We cannot preserve our unity and attack the Communists

unless we get a clear understanding of this point. If

at this crisis for our Party and the Nation we are going

to have rivalry between cliques and cabals, and competition for

place between individuals, it will mean that it is not the

Communists who are ruining the Party, but the members themselve

and that it is not merely the Communist Party that is betray-

ing our late President, but the members of our own Party

themselves.

Let all members of our Kuomintang rouse themselves!

Let all members of our Kuomintang arise and unite!

Let all members of our Kuomintang flock under the

sacred flag of the Blue Sky and the White Sun!

Down with the Chinese Communist Party!