* * * * The Chinese Nationalists have at last
proclaimed their model Constitution. The law, as promulgated, differs essentially from what we had been led to expect. The prospective Ministers undoubtedly wished to shake them- selves free from the control of the Kuomintang Party as a whole. A few weeks ago it looked as though they would succeed, but since then the battle has swayed to the other side. It is evident, after all, that the Govern- ment will take its orders from the Party. As the Shanghai correspondent of the Times says, the Party will not only create the Government but will direct and supervise it. Nevertheless, the five Councils into which the governing machine will be divided are left to work out their own organizations. The struggle for departmental predomin- ance thus made inevitable is likely to be keen and will probably cause delay.
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