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Then Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a speech to the nation. Once again he demanded the nationalization of China's Communist armies, the ending of a state-within-a-state. "The people's most persistent aspirations," he said, "are stability and reconstruction. ... If there is more than one supreme authority who can issue military and administrative orders, if the means of communication and transportation are destroyed here and there . . . the people can never have their aspirations realized...
Chungking estimates that in the provinces occupied by Japan 30 million Chinese became opium, heroin, morphine or hashish addicts. Wherever the enemy advanced, he deliberately undid the patient, progressive work of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Opium Suppression Commission. This agency, aided by the indefatigable New Life Movement, had gone far toward stamping out the cultivation, sale and use of narcotics...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...
Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...
...nation which still puts her scholars before her soldiers audibly protested. Students staged sympathy walkouts in other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...