NEW UNITED CHINA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25940, 5 September 1945, Page 5

NEW UNITED CHINA

LEADER'S CALL TO PEOPLE MODEL DEMOCRATIC STATE (Rec. 8 p.m.) CHUNGKING. Sept. 4. A call to the Chinese to crown victory by building a new united China as the model democratic State in the Far East was made by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in a V.P. Day message. “ We shall brook no further delay in the inauguration of constitutional democracy,” he said. “The Government will consult all parties before convoking the National Assembly at an early date. Our foundation as a modern State is among the weakest among the United Nations. The most important condition for national unity is the nationalisation of all the armed forces. Disreputable practices like the employment of armed forces in political controversy and the seizure of territory in defiance of Government orders are relics of the days o', the war lords. They cannot be tolerated in the national rebuilding. There must be an early end to war-time censorship, so that the people may have freedom of speech, of political assembly, and organisation. Only thus can we tread the path of democracy travelled by Britain and America.”