The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-06
NJ BY RANDALL GOULD

United Press staff Correspondent
KANKOW, July China must
elect either to fall back into the
easy path of purposeless expediency,
or to stride up the sleeper revolu-
tionary highway to eventual free
dom.
This, in broad outline, sketches the
present situation in China as visu-
allied by Michael M. Borodin, High
Advisor to the Nationalist Govern
ment here. Borodin has a mind
filed with seemingly inexhaustible
detail, but he likewise has the gift
of generalizing his findings. At the
present time of crisis it is the even
tual outcome upon which he fixes
his eye.
I'VE have achieved little or moth
ing as yet; the great work lies
ahead" says Borodin. I'm Kwang-
tung province to the southwark we
made start
Our movement must of necessity
be nationwide When it has spread
over the entire country we can pro-
coed to the constructive task which
must be done unless China is to
reconcile herself to continuation
of the bondage of past years.
Shall individual ambitions, for
eign intrigues, the Chapei-Bund
financial web at Shanghai, be al
lowed to bind China to old ways?
Or shall the Chinese assert them
selves as a people? That is the
choice with which China is con-
fronted."
Neither from Borodin nor from
any other of the Hankow Govern
ment officials can any seeker for,
sensational communistic outpouringS
gain satisfactory copy.
Not Ready For Communism
Borodin himself is a communist
from Soviet Russia; yet, like the
former Soviet Ambassador Karak-
han in Peking, he declares that
China today is not ready for COM
munisnl. When he speaks of the
new path which China may follow
If she SO chooses, he does not mean
any such extreme course as his enc
mics have attributed to him.
In an interview with the United
Press in Picking before the famous
Northern Expedition" started from
Canton, Borodin made this clear.
Our program is, and has been, the
party program of the Kuomintang,"
he declares. 'Tnis is not a COM
munistic program It is a program
SO moderate as to seem almost back
ward when compared with the pro-
grams of many 'copitalistic govern
ments operating in countries which
are farther advanced. China is a
country which is itself backward;
country where we must make up
for much lost time during which
other nations have pushed forward.
We must first provide such elemen-
tai things as good government, hon
esty Of administration, safety of life
and property, roads, harbors."
Difficulties Numerous
In different parts of the country,
vastly different factors and prob
lens are encountered, Borodin
points out. Kwantung province,
where the movement was bred has
population overwhelmingly agri-
cultural, for example. When the
movement reached the Yangtze it
encountered considerable indus
trial population, many years adj
vanced beyond the Kwantung sitaa-
ton, and the problem was COM
plicated by years of past labor op-
preston. When the Nationalist re-
moved the lid" from these workers
there was sudden and natural
boiling over, hard to control.
Furthermore, Borodin continues,
there is an increasingly complex
state of affairs as one looks down
river toward Shanghai.
Factors Vary, Choice Same
1t is this selfish attitude which has
given the Chang Kai-shek his sup
port in what the Hankow Nationa-
lists term a rebellion" various
Government leaders here assert.
In the north still other factors will
be encountered and in every in