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"Conference or no Conference, there can be nothing
beyond a mere talk," And on the 18th April there
actually appeared in the Chung Yeung Yat Po of Hankow
a paragraph that Wong had informed someone that he was afraid that Chang Kai Shek would interfere with his
movements, and therefore he boarded a steamer secretly
and wrote to inform him after he had got out of Wu Sung.
He has made up his mind to go and live with the fox-
spectres for some time. But eventually he will dis-
cover what they are really like, and will then be
anxious to get rid of them. We cannot deny that we
have been the same before, and have not opposed them
to any great extent. It is not right for a man who
has run away 50 steps from his enemies, to laugh at
another who has fled from them 100 steps. How can we
blame Mr. Wong?
If Mr. Wong allows himself to be advertised
by the Communists as a trade-mark, it is his own fault.
He can only be their puppet for a while, and no harm
can be done to us. The Communists in their game of buying and selling shadows, have entirely to depend on
advertisement to create castles in the air and a phantom
show. In fact such a trick is no better than peep
shows which one thinks marvellous at first but sees
through after a while. People know that ifr. Wong has
been ridiculously foolish. But after all he cannot
betray our Nation, and the Communists cannot avail
themselves of his services long.
Some days ago a man Mr. Tai came to me via
Cheung Sha and Wuhan. He told me definitely that Mr.
Wong was being kept under the observation of the Com-
munists and had lost his freedom of speech and movement.
It
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