Foreign News: Whither Chungking?

The speaker was remarkable—the president of China's Legislative Yuan, Sun Fo, moderate, democratic-minded son of China's revolutionary leader, Sun Yatsen. The speech, delivered before the Kuomintang, was even more remarkable—an appeal to the Chungking Government to abandon its rightist position and pursue a more leftist policy.

Said Sun Fo:

"Chinese politics cannot be divorced from the main current of international thinking, which is toward democracy and liberalism, against which stand fascism and autocracy. Our enemies are the opponents of democracy. The democratic world is veering to the left and we shall have to...

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