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have been in China but a short time.
Mr. Lai has also entertained the opinion that the
Hong Kong Press has been unfair to the Kuomintang, going as far as ridiculing that Party. He must have been somewhat prejudiced, however, when he would not admit that some of the reports in pro-Kuomintang papers, when literally translated in part on thing concerning foreigners, would be very amusing and do more harm
to the writers and the papers publishing same than to the people they aimed to attack.
The desire of Mr. Tsang Yeung Po, Mr. Lai Lien,
and other Kuomintang leaders to bring about a better understand- ing between Hong Kong British Press and the Kuomintang, despite action not pointing to this direction by others, should be
accepted and given a test.
After talking with a number of persons in Canton, including Mr. Brenan, the Consul General, with whom I had two meetings one before and another after seeing the Canton
officials, it may be said:
1. Many Chinese and foreigners (including Mr. Brenan) do not believe that there has been much change of heart among the Kuomintang leaders in their anti-British attitude.
2. Chinese officials, including the leading ones
in the Political Department, state that they are not anti- British, but only anti-imperialist.
3. The Kuomintang, according to the leaders in Canton, want it to be understood that the "anti-Red" movement does not mean anti-Russian, and that anti-imperialist does
they say, is neither
not mean anti-British. The Kuomintang, they say,
anti-British nor anti-Russian.
4. It
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