[3] Fa-hsi-ssŭ-hua-ti, i.e., changing to Fascism.
[4] The hero of a novella by Lu Hsün, China's outstanding modern writer, Ah-Q is a figure of profound pathos.
[5] Shih Ching, one of the Confucian classics.
[6] The Americanism, i-pai-fên chih pai-ti Chung-kuo-jen, occurs in the original.
[7] The conclusion, couched in billingsgate, is less a violation of the unmentionable in China than it would be in America; but it does strike a note sharply discordant to the gently sardonic tone of the main line of debate. A secretary is germane to the point of literary style, however; ghost-writing is a rarely disturbed tradition of Chinese public life. Mao Tsê-tung, according to Western observers, is, with Chiang K'ai-shek, one of the few leaders to write his own speeches, so that the present charge, while familiar, is certainly unjust.
E. CHINA'S LONG-RANGE DIPLOMATIC ORIENTATION (WANG CH'UNG-HUI)[1]
This memorandum was graciously supplied by Dr. Wang Ch'ung-hui.
1. Outline of China's Foreign Policy
Since the establishment of the National Government, China's foreign policy has been elucidated from time to time. Following the outbreak of the war, the Extraordinary Session of the Kuomintang National Congress convened in 1938 laid down five principles: