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Wong in so doing is thinking that he has considered the

mind of our late President and made it his own.

But we

admitted the Communists into our Party in the hope that

they would help us in our Revolution, not that they should

promote a revolution of their own. In the latter case

it would mean a revolution against our Kuomintang too.

Mr. Wong must get this idea clear. We heartily welcome

all armed workmen who will help our Kuomintang in our

revolution, but any workmen who help the Communists

against us, will be rebels against us, and must be

locked up as Mr. Wong said himself to lir. Pak Kin Shang

on the 3rd April in the house of our late President

(I did not hear these words through inattention, but

Mr. Li Shek Tsang asserted repeatedly that he had heard them distinctly.) When they are locked up as Mr. Wong

said that they should be, they will not be free with

their hands and the arms would not be of any use to them;

why should we then hesitate to have them disarmed? What has made me presume that Mr. Wong has considered the mind

of our President and made it his own, is the following

paragraph in the letter he sent to lir. Chang on the 5th

April:- "The spirit of the re-organisation of the Kuomintang and its policy were established by our late

President with bitter efforts, after careful study and with your support; I was a mere follower of his." On the 3rd May also he said himself to Er. Chang in the

residence of our late President, "You, Liu Chung Hoi, and I are the only persons who have known much of the re- organisation of the Kuomintang by our President.

By

the phrases he has expressed such as "with bitter efforts", "after careful study", and "established by the President

himself", probably he means that we must maintain our

alliance with Russia, tolerate the presence of the Communists

in