Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24
Failure of Chang Produces
Fears as to Future of China

The unexpected retirement of Gen
Chang Kai-shek from the leadership
of the Southern Nationalists of China
has had a tendency to produce pessi
nism in the United States as TO the
future of that country. Majority esti
mates credit this general with un
usual intelligence and with direc'
service in freeing the military serV
ice from the domination or RUSSIAN
holsheyists. The resulting rise 70
mower of Gen. Feng, the so-caiieo
Christian general, is met chieny Wltn
hopes that he may be able TO acnleVe
some progress. Some newspapers
however, are confident that CHINA
eventually will become unineo
nation.
"The Nationalist have a fanatical
zeal for their cause" as observed by
tho Newark Evening News, which con.
codes that ait has been demonstrated
That the factions could not be united
undar Chang" but states that mis-
anneal for them to unite under otner
leadership and his promise tnat ne
will remain a worker in the National
let ranks are hopeful signs that the
nrogress Of the Nationalist may not
he seriously hindered." The Chat
ia nooga News believes that that
great people is nearly certain TO De-
come organized along modern lines
at no distant day in the future. When
that day arrives" adds the News.
"they will be in a position to compel
respect"
"Feng is no idealist," says the
Rochester Times-Union. He mas
often displayed the salient character
istics of a leader of mercenaries by
shamelessly changing sides whenever
he saw chance OF personal gam.
Yet if the bright hopes of the Nation
alist movement have faded. and
Kuomintang, the Chinese Peoples
PARTY is no longer VIGOROUSLY ad-
vancing. the events of the last year
at least demonstrated that force OF
public opinion is growing i'll China
which will ultimately suDstru ute
orderly government for the sway OF
rival war lords"
China is still very much disor-
ganized and politically at sea-" states
the San Francisco Bulletin, but there
is an element of hope for final peace
and agreement in the reputation OF
the Borodin- Chen domination. which
has more than once been pointed out
by disinterested and well informed
persons as the evil genius of awaken
ing Cathay." In fact, according to
the Altoona Mirror, "Some day China
will produce a successor to Sun Vat
Sen, who will secure intelligent and
patriotic helpers who will unity the
thought and the action of the people
of his great country. and out OF the
existing chaos produce and maintain
an orderly government. China
means to control her own ports, to
levy and collect her own tariffs. to
direct the affairs of her own govern.
ment through regular channels"
Though Nationalism seems to be
impotent to overcome the old bad
habits of Chinese politics" accord
ing to the New York Herald Trih-
une, 'it is very genuine force in
the country. 1t may fail again and
again in it's promises, but its strength
does not diminish. and the future
must lie with it, For. in It's broad.
est terms. Nationalism is neither
faction. a general, nor a government:
it is merely the impact of modern
thought upon Chinese life" The
Christian Science Monitor, however.
Is convinced that the solution of the
existing problem SIS not going to he
easy to find. nor found soon" and
The Lansing State Journal suggests
TINT "a req sonable hope would seem
to be that China will eventually work
out a situation in which there will be
number of smaller nations
With the judgment that "the con-
+rol of the Nationalist movement
has passed into other and probably
ass trustworthy hands" the Roanoke
Times yet suggests: Another turn