Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
Kuomintang Is Defended
Communistic Influence in Chi
nese Organization Is Denied.

To the Editor of The Star:
After reading this letter I know that
you will thank me for giving you an OPP
portunity to correct the inadvertently
erroneous editorial published against the
American Kuomintang in your issue CT
october s, entitled Communism III
America"
For many years have been identified
intimately with the Kuomintang or
CARNATIONS not only in China, but in
foreign lands. can testify that Kuo-
m1ntang principles are alien to COM
munism, without compromise. Last year
sinister influences attempted modified
communistic control of one of oul
American groups, with the result that
our purifying" committee used certain
disciplinary measures with immediate
success. Disgruntled "JesusmeT1," as the
Chinese call the missionaries, are largely
responsible for these constant allegations
of communism against the Kuomintang
for the "Jesusmen" fear that they viii
lose their jobs when China is fully free
from foreign invasion. Hence their
bread and butter policy is to Islander
and libel the Kuomintang, which as an
organization follows the true principles
of the justice of Christ more than GER
tain of our gunboat missionary societies
I do not mean all missionaries, OF course
for many are good, particularly the 7
w. G. A. and the Y. M. G. A. which
are becoming indigenous organizations
warmly welcomed everywhere in China
I have just returned from Europe
where I gave lectures before the student
groups of Kuomintang in Europe, of
which there are over 1000. I can
testify to the absence of any COM
nunistic growth whatsoever in Europe
or America.
Your editorial is of the sort that
brings great distress upon us. 1t was
such an editorial as this in 1913 that
caused the Canadian government in 1918
to throw over hundred Canadian Kuo-
mintang leaders in prison, where they
remained until I was able to convince
the Canadian department Of justice of
the injustice of the prosecution.
mention this incident in my biography
of Sun Vat Sen Century Co., 1929, to
which I refer you.
I further direct your attention to
the Kuomintang (American) publica-
ton, issued last year. entitled Our Com
mon Cause With China Against Com
muniSm and Imperialism, of which /
am the author. Please also look over
the old files of the Chinese Nationalist
Monthly, of which I was the founder
and the editor in-chief. Moreover, I
declare that during the many years I
was identified with Sun Vat Sen as his
foreign legal adviser he never
contemplated acceptance of any form
of communism. but merely reciprocated
the Russian abrogation of China's un-
equal treaties, as political opportunity
to advance China on the road to free
dom from foreign invasion.
I have too much confidence in our
State Department to believe that such
department views with alarm "the
startling report of Communist agi-
tation" and its cooperation with
the American Kuomintang. I make
an unreserved and unqualified offer
here and now to prove that the Kuo-
mintang of America is a lawful or
ganization. entirely free from COM
munistic control, and as resident of our
country attached to the principles of
our American Constitution and well dis
posed to the good order and happiness
of the same. And this offer holds good
not only in America, but to the vast
ramifications of the Kuomintang all
over the world.
PAUL LINEBARGER (LIM BAL KU).