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Liberals In Chiang Kai Shek s Camp

The Pacific Story · August 26, 1945 · 29 min · 4,125 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. This is the story of the Pacific and the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea. This is the background to the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come.

Tonight's Pacific Story comes to you as another public service with drama the past and present and commentary by Lawrence Gay Rosinger, research expert for the Foreign Policy Association, authority on foreign affairs and author of the book China's Crisis, the Liberals in John Kaishek's Camp.

It can become a democratic nation only if democracy is first realized within the Quarmin Dam. These are the words of Sun Foul, loyal member of the Quarmin Dam and Arch critic of its rightist policies.

of the Gomindang have come to regard ourselves as the sovereign power of China. The Gomindang is not the sovereign power of China, but is ruling only as the trustees of the people of China. In these words is expressed the thinking of the left wing of the Gomindang. Our greatest mistake was the expulsion of the Communists from the Gomindang. Since our time, the Gomindang

has developed reactionary tendencies. The Gomindang must one day give up its dictatorial powers and become only one of the political parties of the Chinese republic. All political parties will then be free and equal under the law.

But the leftist position is not for communism, nor for capitalism. It is for working out the destiny of China with both the communists and the Gomindang. for 20 years since the death of Sun Yat Sen, father of Sun Foul, the leftists have played a dynamic role between the Gwomindang and the Chinese Communist.

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