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what he told me and some other comrades of ours personally. He did not mean that the whole Communist Party should be added to our Kuomintang and establish a systematic organisa- tion in it so as to monopolize our Kuomintang and prejudice our National Revolution. Alliance with Communists is only a term introduced by the Communists themselves. The admission of individual Communists is not an alliance with them nor can it mean a co-operation with them in ruling China. A true member of our Kuomintang and a faithful follower of our late President is guided solely by the principles of the "Three Aspects of Democracy", and the teaching of our President. We did foresee that after the death of our President from over-work and when he had made
every sacrifice to promote actively our National Revolution for 40 years, the Communists would become reckless in their intrigues against us. At first they desired to get hold of Kwangtung with all their might, and this gave rise to their great intrigues of March the 20th last year. Fortunately they were discovered in time and no serious trouble was caused. But they could never forget their defeat, while I in a spirit of generosity, did not want to be too harsh with them, thinking that we could still cooperate with them as long as they remained in the fighting line of our National Revolutionaries. We did expect that they would approved of our National Revolution by their words, while by their actions they had opposed our Northern Expedition, for which purpose their leaders had actually published some writings. The reason for this is very simple.
For they have known that the militarists are useful tools for creating Communists. The success of the Kuomintang in its Northern Expedition, and
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