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With utter tactlessness, Wang declared his Government the representative of the original and only Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), preempted the flag with a twelve-point star which Chinese soldiers carry in battle, absorbed all existing Japanese puppet regimes, commanded China's civil servants to leave Chungking and join him. He took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"—something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered Chinese "men in the field to cease hostilities immediately." He accused the U. S. of a "calculated campaign of slander," and complained that U. S. diplomats (presumably Sumner Welles and aides) were "dodging from capital to capital" organizing international opinion against him.
But he said nothing against France. His health might require a long trip to his favorite country any day.