COMMENTS BY 'HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY' REPORTER ON U.S. CRIME TO RUIN CHINA AND
THE DUET SUNG BY PROCURESS AND PROSTITUTE

30 August 1947

[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, North Shensi, 30 Aug--A HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY
reporter commented:

After Wedemeyer's announcement, the little court of the House of Chiang
has been putting on all kinds of performances on successive days, indicating
that America and Chiang are singing a duet like the act performed by
Lu Ch'i-ch'i and Chang Hsi-hsi, the clowns of Shanghai's Ta-shih-chieh
amusement park. Knowing well that "corruption" and "inefficiency" are
fundamentally inseparable from the Chiang group, American imperialism
wants this Chiang Kai-shek, who is covered with sores head to foot, to
"reform." It is like leading a camel through the needle's eye. Then why
does Uncle Sam insist that his child perform something absolutely
impossible? There are two goals: On the one hand it will create excuses
for the American imperialist authorities, so that, after whitewashing the
toilet cover of the Chiang Kai-shek group, they can openly dump arms and
loans into Chiang Kai-shek's bottomless pit. On the other hand Wedemeyer's
fancy words, such as "strictness," "fairness," and "the Chinese people's
yearning for peace," are for the purpose of calming the anger of the
Chinese and American people toward American imperialism and Chiang
Kai-shek's rotten regime. The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR of the 27th leaked
the hidden plans: "Wedemeyer announced that the door to aid Chiang and
resist communism had not been closed." Meanwhile, the NEW YORK TIMES
openly stated: "Many able 'authorities' and officials under 'Chairman'
Chiang are 'absolutely' capable of reform." The truth is revealed. Chiang
Kai-shek and the four big families are good and "authoritative," and the
bad ones are only the generally "inefficient" low-level staff and the "local
government structure" personnel who need some "reform."

After the procuress had sung for a while, the prostitutes ascended the
stage, led by Sun K'o and Wu T'ieh-ch'eng, vigorously acting out the modern
drama of prostitution. The titles of the programs were "Purging Corruption"
and "Strict Enforcement of Regulations on Punishing Corruption." Here there

were several implied "benefits": The various groups could make use of the
opportunity to vent their anger against the thorns in their flesh. Mean-while, "purging corruption" was "very successful." Hereafter we will see
many farces, such as the Huang-p'u faction prosecuting the CC faction or
the political study faction hauling out the K'ung-Soon clique. Afterward,
the procuress returned unsatisfied and sang again. Following her we will
probably see the performers exchanging their roles, the so-called "reorganization." According to a U.S. UNITED PRESS report on the 27th, "Wedemeyer's
criticisms will be thoroughly digested by the members of the Kuomintang
Central Committee. They will hold a meeting in the near future to partly
reorganize the 'coalition government' controlled by the Kuomintang."
Sun K'o became more active. He gave an interview to a CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY
reporter in Canton: "Sun has cleared up all the misunderstandings of
outsiders concerning Wedemeyer's announcement. All American suspicions
about aiding China (Chiang) will be completely allayed. He stresses that
the major task of the 'special envoy' is to determine how America should
render aid to China." Thus, Wu T'ieh-ch'eng was moved to tears by his
gratitude: "General Wedemeyer's words were frank and sincere." Thus,
what Wedemeyer directed was merely a duet.

Nevertheless, the highlight of the duet was still Sun K'o. Though the main
goal of Wedemeyer's vociferous advocation of "peace" is to play for time
and give Chiang Kai-shek an opportunity to reorganize and equip his troops
and reinforce the offensive, Wedemeyer knows that this is extremely
difficult to accomplish. Therefore, he resigns himself to the second best:
The reporter pointed out in conclusion: The bankruptcy of Wedemeyer's
reputation and the bankruptcy of the court of the House of Chiang in all
aspects constitute the final declaration of bankruptcy of the prostitutes
and monkeys such as Sun K'o. The people are pushing them from total
bankruptcy to a permanent grave.

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JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 3 September 1947
--- Notes

1. Aid to Chiang and the civil war are inseparably linked and so are the
civil war and the amount of aid. However, there must be an excuse in order
to convince the financial bosses in America who balk at the bottomless pit.

2. To preserve the status of Uncle Sam, there has to be some lecturing.
But if the wording is too severe, it may produce the side effects of
"contemptible defeatism" and internal demoralization among the children.
Therefore, a brilliant performance is required in order to convince the
bosses above and energize the rank and file below. Thus, it is necessary
to speak in a different tone, slightly different from the CC and Huang-p'u
factions. As the highlight of the program in the modern zoo is the joint
performance of the foreigners and the animals, Sun K'o, after playing the
prostitute, emerged as a monkey. Backstage, Wedemeyer sang: "Let them
make peace!" Sun K'o, turning somersaults on stage: "Fight! Fight! The
Communist Party must be wiped out by force!" The "fight to the finish"
sung by the openly fascist chief Chiang Kai-shek will be somewhat different
from the "fight to the end" sung by Sun K'o, who prostitutes as a
"liberalist." We can expect the third appearance of the procuress on
stage, followed by a display of coppers and firearms.