FOOTNOTE:
[1] Official English text from Ch'u Chia-hua (Party-Minister of Organization of the Kuomintang), "Consolidation of Democracy in China," in Council of International Affairs, The Chinese Yearbook 1938-39, [Hong Kong], 1939, p. 337-8.
E. AN OUTLINE OF WAR-TIME CONTROLMENT[1]
An official but unpublished statement, this document was presented by the President of the Control Yüan to the author for inclusion in the present work.
According to Article 46, Chapter VIII of the Organic Law of the National Government, the Control Yüan is "the highest supervisory organ of the government, obliged to exercise the power of impeachment and auditing in accordance with law." Since the beginning of our resistance against the Japanese invasion, the powers of control have been gradually strengthened so as to meet the demands of this critical time. A static control has developed into a dynamic one; that is, more emphasis is laid upon prevention than upon correction. Therefore the duties of the office become heavier and more complicated, as its work becomes more intensified. But the influence which the Yüan has exercised over Chinese politics as a whole becomes also wider and wider. In this report, we are going to describe the activities of the Yüan under the two headings of the Control Yüan and the Ministry of Audit.