Demigod's Relict

The crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics. Last week this indomitable lady suddenly lashed out at both her cousins, the Nationalists and the Canton Government of the South. Said she:

"It is now undeniable that the Kuomintang has lost its position as the country's revolutionary party. The party's destroyers, far from being external enemies, are its own leaders. . . . Corruption and chicanery have reached a high degree. Those in the central government . . . have made their friends happy but the people miserable. . . . The so-called leaders have stooped to begging mercy from foreign imperialists and have resorted to political tricks the old mandarins never would have dared. . . .

"More recently Nanking and Canton stood at opposition to each other each boasting of its own merits. . . . Both are antipeople and antirevolutionary. . . .

"I am unwilling to see a nation of 400,000,000 people extinguished by the Kuomintang which has repudiated itself. If the party cannot save the nation and benefit the people, then it is doomed to extinction, which I will not regret."

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