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...guide the Kuomintang listened to the words of their leader. The harsh voice of the Generalissimo was unusually clipped, metallic. Chiang Kai-shek told the 150 solemn faces before him that the days of one-party administration in China were nearly over. It was time, he said, to take the third of Sun Yat-sen's three steps: from the era of political tutelage (under the Kuomintang) to the era of constitutional democracy. Then all political parties should have equal rights and the Kuomintang should no longer enjoy special privileges before...
...sober men knew the importance of the step. That morning they had read in Sao Tang Pao (the Army newspaper) a selection from Chiang's new book China's Destiny: "In the past China's destiny depended on foreign policy. Now it depends on our ability to secure inner political unification and concentration of national power. China stands at the watershed of her fate, a fate which will be decided during the present war and within two years...
...Chiang asked the Committee to concentrate on postwar reconstruction, economic as well as political. It meant, the official press explained, that the war is a step on the road of the People's Revolution, that the Revolution is a new environment in which national reconstruction can flourish...
...christened Chung Cheng and Chung Shan, the formal names of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yatsen...
...coming up; the strength lies in her and nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down." One Issue. Two Leaders. Dr. Lin sees in this war only one issue, "Empire versus freedom." He sees two world leaders rep resenting opposite sides of this issue -"Chiang Kaishek, for whom 'patriotism is not enough,' and Winston Churchill, for whom it is." Says Dr. Lin : "The issue of empire versus freedom is dividing...