[6] Nyi, P. C., "Plans for Economic and Political Hegemony in China," cited, p. 239. Compare this with the chart in George Taylor, work cited, p. 204. Professor Taylor's study covers the entire history of the Provisional Government, significantly aligned with that of its rival, the guerrilla Border Region.
[7] The Japan-Wang Ch'ing-wei Secret Agreements, 1938-1939-1940, Shanghai, 1910; these also appeared in the China Weekly Review, January 27, 1940, p. 318; February 3, 1940, p. 341.
[8] Statement of the Japanese Prime Minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, December 22, 1938, Jones and Myers, Documents on American Foreign Relations, 1939-40, Boston (World Peace Foundation), p. 299.
[9] Ch'ên Lo died, and the only persons with any diplomatic experience had, in the past, been only casually connected with the Foreign Office.
[10] See The People's Tribune (Shanghai), XXIX, p. 130 ff., August 1940. This is the semi-official English organ of the regime; each issue contains a selection of public documents. It is edited by the volatile T'ang Leang-li. The other English-language journal is The Voice of China, fortnightly, Nanking, edited by Mr. L. K. Kentwell, a graduate of Oxford and Columbia Universities, Hawaiian-born of British and Cantonese parentage. The journal is spirited, and very anti-British.
[11] Such a chart is found in The People's Tribune, XXIX (March 1940), p. 214, together with a list of incumbents on the following pages. The issue is headed by an editorial, "The National Government Returns to Its Capital" and "Peace, Struggle, and Save China" by Wang Ching-wei (sic). The official outline of the government is to be found in [Reorganized Government], K'ao-shih Yüan Kung-pao (Public Gazette of the Examination Yüan), Nanking. Vol. I, No. 2 (June 1940), following p. 80.
[12] [Reorganized Government], Ssŭ-fa Hsing-chêng Kung-pao (Public Gazette of the Ministry of Justice), Nanking, gives a well-edited résumé of the work of the Ministry and its policy in prosecutions.
[13] [China Weekly Review; J. B. Powell, editor], Who's Who in China, Fifth Edition, Shanghai, [1937], p. 145. For further information see the supplement on the pro-Japanese leaders in Who's Who in China, Supplement to Fifth Edition, Shanghai, [1940]. This presents a hall of notoriety for all the major Chinese leaders affiliated with the enemy. This Who's Who is regarded by the present author as one of the most valuable sources on all Far Eastern politics. It is engrossingly good reading and entertainment, the pictures of the subjects being included in most instances. Behind these simple and short biographies, there lies more drama than Hollywood dare produce.
[14] For an account of this see, "Wang's Farcical C.E.C. Session," China At War (Hong Kong), III, No. 6, p. 57; January 1940.
[15] The full text of the treaty is to be found in China Information Committee, News Release, December 2, 1940, together with the Generalissimo's comment. For a brief account, clearly interpreted, see Steiger, G. Nye, "Japan Makes Peace—with Wang," Events, Vol. 9, No. 49 (January 1941), p. 60-2. The Generalissimo's comment on the Nanking regime will also be found below, Appendix III (A), [No. 7].