China The constitution unanimously passed by the Peoples' Convention which
broke up at Nanking last week is well termed provisional. If the Convention itself cannot be said to have been deliberately " packed," its results, outwardly so flattering to the official wing of the Kuomin- tang, have in reality little significance. The absence from it of the Right and Left Wing leaders was doubly effective. It made the Convention look like a claque, and it left the enemies 'of Chiang Kai-shek free for more active and more dangerous aggression in the South. Canton has proclaimed its independence under a military Government ; Eugene Chen and Sun Fo, with other experienced impresarios of revolution, make a bold front against Nanking. It may be that Chiang's safety lies in the number of his enemies. On so many radical differences of opinion and so many conflicting ambitions a common disgruntlement can hardly impose effective unity for long.
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