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they have also stirred up our troops to demand an
Such a demand can only be as absurd
increase of pay.
as taking a southern direction when one's desire is to
It will break up our whole revolutionary
go north.
army, and involve it in utter ruin.
I am a revolutionary soldier, and have taken great interest in our soldiers, sharing all hardship and enjoyment with them. From the beginning it is I who have worked hard to promote their welfare. But
the policy of the Communist traitors has been directed to ruin our National Revolutionary Armies and you, my soldiers, should not be deceived by it. : Of late they have plotted cunningly to stir
up troubles among our National Revolutionary Troops. To achieve this, they have spread abroad many rumours, charging me as a Dictator and a new Militarist. I do not know what they mean by Dictator. If they mean the centralization of military power, I must point out that this is necessary in all countries in time of war, and that on this the lives of our national revolutionary troops depend. Thus it is no dictatorship. Nobody can deny the necessity of centralizing military power in time of war, unless he has secretly allied himself with the enemies or is willing to allow himself to be exterminated. If I am alleged to have exercised dictator- ship in the Central Kuomintang Department and the Political Council, I can say that every resolution at the Kuomintang Department and the Political Council was openly carried by a majority of votes and that as I am only one of the members, no dictatorship could have been exercised. Their accusation of my being a new militarist is indeed malignant, but is ridiculously stupid. Le me ask you soldiers if there is any
militarist
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