893.00/5–1945: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the
Secretary of State
Chungking, May 19,
1945.
[Received May 19—1:28 p.m.]
806. Central News, official Kuomintang organ,
announces that a series of resolutions introduced by the Generalissimo (who
has been reelected leader of the party) on preparatory measures for
inauguration of constitutional government was adopted by Sixth Congress on
May 16. These measures, reportedly to “demonstrate the sincerity and
resource of the successful operation of constitutional government”, are as
follows:
- “1. That all the existing Kuomintang headquarters in the
armies be abolished within a period of 3 months [and] no party
headquarters be established in any school;
- 2. That the San Min Chu I Youth Corps be taken over by the
Government as a youth training institution.
- 3. That through election [of] provisional political councils
the various hsiens and municipalities in free China be
established within 6 months to serve as full-fledged
representative organs and that in any province where political
councils already exist in more than half of the hsiens and
municipalities under its jurisdiction, a provincial political
council be immediately elected to serve as a representative
origin [organ] of the province;
- 4. That a law governing the formation of political societies
be enacted so that political groups other than the Kuomintang
may attain legal status;
- 5. That offices of administrative character which have been
functioning under the Kuomintang during the period of political
tutelage be gradually taken over by the Government for the
adjournment of the present congress;
- 6. That the forthcoming Central Executive Committee of the
Kuomintang be authorized to carry out the aforementioned
measures.”
