893.00/15096: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:35 p.m.]
1532. According to reliable sources, the next session of the CEC,37 originally scheduled for November, will begin about September 5, agenda to include Kuomintang-Communist relations and selection of new President of National Government. Consideration is also being given to possible adoption of some alteration in governmental structure by providing something in the nature of a democratic appearing façade to meet recent foreign criticism of the administration’s Fascist tendencies. One suggestion along this line is that Presidency be made a position of actual executive authority on either American or former French lines and that there be a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of the heads of executive ministries.
The People’s Political Council is expected to meet in September after the CEC session.
- Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.↩