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11/29/1948 - Mei Kung-ping; Revolutionary Committee by Albert Ravenholt

AR INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS Hongkong November Mr Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs 5Ffth Avenue New York N Y Dear Mr Rogers Kung Chinese reoluti0nary But revolutionary within Kuomintang Party which ruled China about years At moment colleagues planning organizing decisive events coming months As principle brain trusters Marshal Li Chi Mei probably considerable influence future country Li Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee safety British Colony present strongest contender presidency coalition government which expected brought victory Communist Armies Mei still sharp walks stoops bears evidence tense lived several decades He young graduate Economics Tung Wen College hanghai Northern Expedition organized Canton The Expedition military machine generated ideas Sun Yat followers organizing talents Soviet advisors revolutionary fervor swept country Although middle Mei given Job political leader Division commanded arshal Ohang Fah The three divisions Fourth Army which nickname Ironsides Cemmander Fourth Marshal Li Chi served concurrently Chief Staff Revolutionary Army The Commander Army which Kuomintang Communist organizers worked together Chiang Kai The memory revolutionary venture fires imagination China Rural organizers preceded Army They roused peasants revolt Within unexpectedly Yangtze Valley Shanghai Nanking Hankow Army Chlang turned Communist workers Many killed Others including Soviet advisors Madame Sun Yat Russia after collapse their separate government In Hankow Communist leaders escaped purge filtered Southern provinces Hunan Kiangsi Fukien began organizing their movement vaulting saddle Li Chi established strong relationship placed under house arrest Nanking oppositionto Chiangstactics slipped country Japan where spent three studying researching Upon retur China began teaching Economics International Politics Shanghai first Tsinan University later Central University Meanwhile shift within Kuomintang Party controlled government Li Chi became Chief Army Training Chiang Kai forced President But Japanese attack Shanghai hiang returned power title Chairman ilitary Commission When Chiang Wang Ghing accepted Japanese demand greater control around Shanghai Li resigned prtest The protest eventually Peoples Government which organized Fukien capital Foochow advising Li leagues while holding professorship escaped Foochow There Joined Cultural Committee government elected Chairman mttees Peoples Representative Assembly General Tsai Ting remnants RouteAr which fought Japanese Shanghai important Part government From Foochow theyre organize popular oppostion Japan To signed truce promise cooperation Communists established South China Soviets Kiangsi Province West Ohiang Kai movec German trained advised armies Yangtze River within months eliminated Foochow Government Chiang shifted armies stepped camoaigns against Coznunists which drove their Lon liarch roughly miles nterland China Northwest Li Mei other leaders Foochow Peoples Government meanwhile transfere their headquarters Hongkong formed National evolutionary Conittee They scattered organizers contact through coastal provinces Of South China Their political appeals called Chinese opposition Japanese crowding Manchuria North China Within Ohina advocated political union factions including Chinese Communistn The kidnap hiang Kai Sian Japan brought Chinese political factions together Li Joined National ililitary Council which became inoeffect cabinet running country under Chiang Kai As member Sixth Department Council which Li charge began organize popular resisence Japan According L Mel other members KuomS ntang Revolutlorary Conlttee Chlang Kal again began seizing personal control Chinese Government Kuomintang Party As Chiang conservative henchmen moved squelched popular representative reforms They climax Chlang troops attacked Conmunist New Fourth Army Central China early Li virtually wlthdew Goverent returned native Kwangsl Province where retained title Director General sslmo Headquarters disgusted Kuomintang Party policies under Ghang For years patlal political etiement serving School Law Sun Yat Sen University Kwangtung Province L active against Japan again brief Japanese capture Kweilln summer V J Day He eused offer powerless lilltary Advisory Committee Chungking Instead returned areas behind Japanese lines though nearing years began organizing guerrillas fight enemy During retirement L Joined group senlo Kuomintang leaders foste considered democratic reforms within Paty The loose alliance included Christian Geneal Feng Yu hslang Eventually poduced organizations The hungking which after Japan surrender Federation San In Chu I Comrades In Southeast China second group fomer commander Route Army General Tsa Tin organized local leaders Society Pomotlon Democracy Kuomlntang The truce which General George Marshall negotiated between Co unists Nationalists looked oppotunlty which hoped When negotiations settle civil failed leaders these factions graduai gathered Hongkong succeeded remaining teaching because protection friend arshal Chang Fah continued serve Nanking government But right CC Clique Kuomintang forced through order arrest In furor protest students Sun Yat Unlversi sllppe China Hongkong Hee friend L forming movement which threw Officially Vice Director Propaganda Kuomintang Revolutionary CoNnnittee edltolal writer newspaper Wen Hui Pao But could described planning receivership Kuomintang Party To Coittee brought together outstanding Party leaders openly opposed Ch Kal policies Thei first congress convened They provide diectlon Parity Chinese Communist Amles topple hlangKa cohorts These insist Chiang retention power possible because personal control military machine Once machine destroyed reason original constructive potential Kuomintang Party Will liberated The Paty heavily padded officeholders Kuomintang device power The meanlngfull figure membership Kuomintang between million million members Li Chl estimates percent membership really subscribe original princlples Yat efore eligible membership organization Where these China where Chinese Com munist amies unquestioned military superiority How compete Communist Party whose members younger bettr discilined numerous largely control local government administrative organs North These Kuomintang Revolutionary Comnttee optimistic outside observer might expect In their country after Ghiang Kal associates eliminated these say_there pemlum talent The Commuists destroy Chiang Kal alone country together again Once enormous rebuilding tckled literate experienced women Communists havre limited number With future adually building organization looking thousands members individual leaders About leading women Kuomintang joined organizing Revolutio Committee Since growing overall figures exist partly because weaning members China quietly Presen efforts concentrated nearby Kwangtung Province Shanghai Nanking Szechuan where number intellectuals remained behind after Here Hongkong members I0 political affairs conmLittee planning coalition goverrent replace Chiang Kal regime They other major opposition group Democratic League prepared plans organization initial policies provisional goverrment Several months members their tanding Committee General Tsal Ting Tan Ping slipped Hongkong Along opposite representatives Democratic League traveled Communlst Liberated Are North China In North other represent tives Committee adame Feng Yu Chu Hsueh heads Chinese Federation Labor Along Democratic League Conunlst delegates holding PCC metings The taken Political Consultative Conference called Chungking after Marshall truce efforts began The Conference organized coalition governent pieces civil broks again The present meeting drawing agenda preparing those invited Political Consultative Conference That Conference empected inlateFebruaryorachl IfCommunistvictoriespermitt Peiping The Conference sduled establish provisional coalition government That govern country until People Assembl draft constitution basic organic eventual authority Chlna None Mei before permanent vernment being But think several years During interim period expect Communist Armies areas control foster local provisional governments pattern those already establlshd In Noth China But there large areas millions people where Conunists reachn strength And Chiang Kal running In those areas members Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee expect OOportunity As their pattern objectives Sun Yat ideas already books remained largely uninforced under present government These ideas integral Communist program North It appears difference principally attempt carry effect Rightly vrongly opposition Kuomintang leaders their headquarters convinced bright offin their country They Chlang constructlve mlnded leaders sprout place They exhilerated thoughts country bUild after years struggling opportunity Outsiders suggest Eastern Europe Communists crowded their brushed aside rather scornfully these Chinese leader anything about Eastern Europe These realities their country people quite numbe possibilities Received New York