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N Double Tenth, or October 10, China celebrated its 35th birthday as a republic.

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The year 1911 marked the downfall of the Manchu Dynasty, which had ruled over
China for some 300 years. The soul of the revolutionary movement was Dr. Sun Yat-sen,
an unassuming little man of great learning, who began his career as a brilliant young sur-

geon in Hongkong. He left to go among his people in China,

in Japan, in Europe and

America and organize their mass support for the building of a free, democratic China.

He was selfless, modest, and
So entirely devoted to the cause
of the people that there is
hardly a Chinese—be he progres-
sive or reactionary—who does
not worship Dr. Sun as the
Father of the People.

He travelled mostly incognito,
with Britain and a number of
other countries refusing to let
him enter their territories. He
was regarded as a revolutionary
wanted by his own imperial gov-
ernment for “subversive activi-
ties.”

Here is an anecdote which
highlights his character. At the
end of 1911, when he arrived in
San Hrancisco from Japan, he
received a codeq cable from the
party he had founded the
Kuomintang party which has
today become so reactionary and
anti-democratic.

Having left his code in a
trunk, he did not bother about
the wire until he reached New
York. When he decoded it, he
found -it was the invitation to
assume the first presidency of
the Republic of China. He did
not tell anyone. He said later
he was too happy to be able to
travel across the Atlantic in-
cognito, without any newspaper-
men interviewing him and mak-
ing a fuss over it! All the news-
papers carried the news, yet no
one had recognized the quiet lit-
tle man.

Symbols of the people

Double Tenth and Sun
Yat-sen were then, as they
are today, symbols of a people’s
republic. The whole political
philosophy of Dr. Sun was con-
tained in his Three Principles of
the People: An Independent Na-
tional China, A Constitutional
Democracy and Economic Se-
cialism,

Officials of the Kuomintang,
as well as officials and people
in the liberated areas under the
Yenan government, will bow
three times on Double Tenth be-
fore Sun Yat-sen’s portrait and
repeat the words contained in
his Last Will.

But with the Kuomintang and
Generallissimo Chiang it will be
nothing but lip service. It has
been lip service since 1927 when
Chiang started the counter-revo-
lution, sold out to the Shang-
hai bankers and to the foreign
imperialist powers, anc turned
his guns against the people of
China who had hailed him as
their leader.

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Kuomintang dictatorship

Chiang’s government nas
shrunk to a mere few hundred
die-hards who are fighting des-
perately to pereptuate their dic-
tatorship over a people or 450
million who are struggling for

democratic government today
more than ever. Corruption, in-
flation, terror, assassination,

concentration camps, famine on
one hand, and on the other a
handful of billionaires owning
practically the whole land, the
banks,-and taking over most in-
dustries aS a Chiang-Soong fam-
ily state monopoly—those are the
aspects of this medieval feudal
police state.

They have the whole people,
from the coolie to the intellec-
tuals,
officials and officers against
them. They can survive only with
foreign Support—American sup-
port, in this case. And they can
thrive only when they succecd

llona Ralf

By EVA LAPIN
LONA RALEF SUES makes a
[ striking impression with her
brushed straight
back, one blond lock hanging
down for contrast. There is a
briskness and intensity about

dark hair

_ her which make you aware she

feels things keenly.

“TI have no more private life.
All I am interested in is China,”
she says in her slight, nice-to-
hear accent. And her knowledge
of China is so deep and up-to-the
minute you easily believe her.

Whether she is talking about
“Chiang Kai-shek, he can’t live
in peace, he needs war to Sur-
vive because he cannot give the
people what the other side gives

them” or about the time she
picketed the Rainbow Room,
her whole personality expresses

her warm feeling for the Chi-
nese people and her belief that
she must help them win de-
mocracy in whatever way she
can.

Miss Sues, who is now in San
Hrancisco attending a conference
en China and the Far East, is
the author of ‘Sharks Fin and
Millet,’ an informal account of
her experiences in China from
1936 to 1940. In this book, with-
out the benefit of scholarly es-
says or detailed facts, she
brought home the struggte of
the Chinese masses for democ-
racy.

and many high Tanking ~

in bringing about a Soviet-Am-
erican war. Peace is detrimental
to them, because they cannot ac-
cede to the people demands for
a democratic government. De-
mocracy would spell death to
their dictatorial regime.

Democracy in action
Or the other side of the
blockade kept up by Chiang
during the Japanese war and
after V-J Day, live some i140
million people who have actu-
ally carried into practice the
meaning of the Double Tenth
the Three People’s Principles.
Their leaders, the Chinese
Communists, have remained as
poor as Dr. Sun. Not one of
them has gold deposits in the
United States, or owns an es-
tate in China. They freed the
country from the/Japanese, after
Chiang abandoned province after
province. They introduced free
elections, reduced taxation, in-
creased production, opened free

schools and hospitals and, above
all, they the building with the
people a free-democratic reppb-
lic.

The obstacle to unity in China
today, the evil power which
feeds the Chiang-sponsored civil
war and starves hte common
people, is American intervention.
So long as American loans fi-
nance, American troops protect,
American surplus war material§S
bolster Chiang’s forces, there
will be no peace within China.
And there may soon be the
beginning of World War Iii.

What withdrawal means

As soon as American forces
withdraw, Chiang, whose divi-
sions are deserting him one by
one, and who knows the strength
of the people and his own weak—
ness, will bow to the overwhelm-

ing popular demand. He will,
under duress, keep the promises
and agreements to establish

a coalition cabinet of all parties
and to call a National Assem-
bly of delegates elected by the
people. These delegates will etab-
orate and adopt a constitution

and a bill of rights of the peo-
ple’s own choosing.

This would mean peace in
Asia: It would mean the rise
of a strong, stabilizing power
among the war-torn colonial
peoples, an example to follow.
And it would mean that a politi-
Cally and economically reliable
government backed by a re-in-
vigorated nation of 450 milion
people would take its place
among the United Nations to
build that One World which we
all so terribly need.

On this year’s Double Tenth
every thinking American and
Canadian should pledge his re-
lentless- fight against any form ~
ef American intervention in
China’s internal affairs. We
must stop this double talk of
negoGiations which leads no-
where but strengthens Chiang’s
id&ces against the people. We
must step all loans and ship-
ments of surplus and lend-lease
material to China until the es-
tablishment of a people’s gov-
ernment. And the United States
must withdraw all troops from
a immediately and for

Sues - fighter for a free China

Little, Brown and Company,
her publishers, were “surprised
and pleased” at the 30,000 copies
the book sold, She is now work-
ing on another book ane sne
can’t quite make up her . mind

whether to call it “Song of
Soongs” or “Chiang, Soong of
Soongs” or “Chiang, Soong and
Company, Unlimited,” but it is
going ‘to expose the graft and
corruption behind the Chiany

Kai-shek government.

Telling about “my first time
on the picket line” when for
two hours she marched up and
down Rockefeller Center protest-
ing the visit of Ho-Ying-Ching,
Chinese military members of the
United Nations staff, gives Miss
Sues a particular kick because
“he’s the bird who told me TI
would be shot on sight if I ever
came back to China”

ISS SUES has had the kind
of life usually described as
“glamorous and exciting’’ She
was born in Poland, educated
in France and Germany, and
practically grew up in the lob-
bies of the League of Nations.
She worked with the Anti-
Opium League in Geneva and
when the atmosphere got too
elouded and heavy she packed
off her three C’s — cat, camera
and continental typewriter and
headed for China.

She arrived in 1936 just in
time to see Chiang Kai-shek in-
corporate Kwantung and Kwan-~
€Si provinces. When Japan in-
waded China in 1937 she offered
her services to the government
and submitted a plan for hand-
ling China’s propaganda abroad.
She worked very closely with
Madame Chiang Kai-shek and
W. H. Donald and got to know
them very well.

The Madame, she admits, is
“charming, beautiful and cultur-
ed” but “she doesn’t have any
heart for the Chinese people,”
nor do they consider her one
of them. Miss Sues says her sis-
ter, Madame Sun Yat-sen, on
the other hand, is “truly loved
because she has never swerved
from her belief in democracy.”

ee!
E of the incidents in her
book which she likes to

repeat is the tale of Tu Yeuh-
San, head of the Shanghai un-
derworld and opium ezar, be—
cause it symbolizes the corrup-

tion of the Chiang Kai-shek
government. Tu was once Chi-
ang’s boss, but kidnappings,

robberies and the like reached
such a pitch in Shanghai in
1934, that Chiang called Tu and
asked his price to keep peace.

Tu answered, with a touch of
grim humor, “I want to be the
official director of opium sup-

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pression in Shanghai.” He got it.

Miss Sues feels the American
people should know what kind
of person Chiang Kai-shek is.
“America can’t rely on the
troops of Chiang Kai-shek. They
can’t rely on him, either. What-
ever money loaned him has
been diverted for his own pur-
poses.

“He is taking over everything
the Japanese left. A small group
of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-
law around Chiang are grabbing

up industries and materials, It
is becoming a family affair.”
ei d
KING about the Demo-

cratic League in China, Ralf
Sues said Chiang killed two pro-
fessors belonging to this party
“because they had no army.
Chiang’s army is a personal one.
The Communists absolutely must
have their army to protect them-
Selves.”

Miss Sues plans on going back
te China as soon as she finishes
her book. “If the United States
withdrew its troops, in three
months there would be -absolute
peace in China.”

The way She figures it, eith-
er there will be peace or there
will be two separate China’s—
and if there is a Communist
China, she warns Chiang, the
300 million people in the rest of
China will revolt.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1946