CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929 — Page 78

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should be liable to be transferred by the Central Govemment to other commands, do that they cannot have a personal army;

(a) the real makers of the Chinese Republic should band themselves together under the name of "Chung Kuo Kung Ho Ta Luan Meng" The Great Alliance of the Chinese Commonwealth", for the purpose of unifying China, upholding the authority of the Central Government, seeing that the Government of China is in fact a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and not by any single Party;

(e) an endeavour should be made to bring together, in addition to the "elder-statesmen" such as Tuan Chi- jui and Wu Pei-fu, men who are now in command of armies but who are in sympathy with out cause, and also men who by virtue of their political experience and knowledge or their native ability, are considered necessary for the common weal.

5. The weakness of men like Tuan Chi-jui and Wu Pei-fu in the past has been a lack of a definite policy which the Kuomintang alone has always had. This proposed "Alliance" or Pact will have for its policy (1) government by the people and not by a 'Tang, (2) tranquility to the people, and (3) supreme authority vested in a properly elected President with a Cabinet, answerable to a legally constituted Parliament.

Realising their former weakness, the

promoters of the Pact hade already agreed that in

future they will not do anything without having first

consulted with each other, so as to avoid the old

mistakes of acting aloof and pursuing one's own policy, however good that policy may seem to oneself.

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