CHINESE PARTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 17

CHINESE PARTIES

GETTINGTOGETHER

Indicative or the prospects of con* tinued" close cooperation between the. Kuomintang and the Communist Party in.' China are the pronouncement* made by Kuomintang and Communist spokesmen, says' a Hankow message to the "New York Times." The one stressed the absence of difficulties between the two parties, and the other praised the accomplishments of the just concluded Kuomintang Congress. Speaking to a Press conference, General Chen Cheng, Read of the Political Training Ministry of the Military Affairs Commission,"said that the question of Kuomintang- and Com- . munist relations "no longer remains an issue." "The question was not brought up in the Kuomintang Con-, gress," General Chen said, emphasising that inter-party relations - 'had been settled last year after the Communist issuance of a manifesto pledging sup* port- to* the Sun Vat-sen principles, t» the Government, and to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Meanwhile, there were definitely pro--1 Kuomintang remarks by Chou En-lai. a noted member of the Communist Party, when interviewed. Mr. Chou ' characterised the Kuomintang Congress as the most satisfactory in ten years; , A FORWARD STEP. - "The actions of the congress consti* tute an important forward step in the continuance of anti-Japanese resistance," Mr: Chou asserted. He said that- he regarded the congress's actions as distinctly progressive, and said that he anticipated increased efficiency in the prosecution of the. war- as a result of the formal recognition, of General Chiang's party and national leadership) by the official Communist' daily. "It is important that the Congress recognised • andi stressed the strength of the people as a, factor in resistance," the paper says. .-"History proves that oppressed races can only win emancipation and independence by utilising the united strength of the whole people." • The paper refutes charges that the Kuomintang has Fascist tendencies, asserting that "Sun Vat-sen's principles are different from those advocated by Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese militarists. "Sun Vat-sen's principles are those of revolution for the emancipation ot the people. They do not conflict with, a programme of freedom for the oppressed races. The congress has given a blow to the Fascist invader, to the Trotskyists, and to those having the wrong conceptions of the principles of the racei" * ;