China Civil Rights Protection Alliance, Peking branch founding meeting.
On the rostrum, Hu Shi was making a personal speech: "We established this alliance for two purposes. First, to help individuals, and second, to supervise the government. Now that the country is facing a national crisis, the central government is neither actively resisting Japan nor practicing democracy.
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Zhou Hexuan sat in silence in the audience. This vigorous civil rights alliance will be forced to stop its activities in a few months. Because the director general Yang Xingfo was assassinated, the civil rights alliance lost its organizational and executive power, and the remaining people
I can't afford such a big stall.
So Chiang Kai-shek has a ruthless vision. If he assassinates Mrs. Sun, Lu Xun or Hu Shi, it will only arouse a greater wave of resistance. But he killed Yang Xingfo, which was equivalent to cutting off the limbs of the Civil Rights Alliance, and there were simply not enough people left.
For fear.
Zhou Hexuan also thought about saving Yang Xingfo, but he was helpless and couldn't save him at all.
Even with Zhou Hexuan's reminder, Yang Xingfo escaped one assassination, the second, and the third... This Mr. Yang was too ostentatious, sparing no effort to rescue the Communist Party everywhere, and he also had reputation, means, and execution ability.
Chang Kaishen has long been regarded as a thorn in his side.
Although the China Civil Rights Protection Alliance has just been established, it is very powerful. Its members include today's left, center, and right. People who may have quarreled when they met in the past all joined the Civil Rights Alliance by chance. It is unimaginable that this organization will develop smoothly.
So Chang Kaishen must kill someone, kill the most critical one.
However, Yang Xingfo did not know how to protect himself and liked to participate in various public activities. He was basically a living target for the Kuomintang agents.
After Hu Shi finished speaking, Yang Xingfo, the host of the meeting, said: "Now, I would like to invite Mr. Zhou to speak!"
Zhou Hexuan walked up to the rostrum, looked at the nearly a hundred members of the Peking branch below, and said: "At the beginning of this month, the Japanese broke through Shanhaiguan, and then the Great Wall defense line became extremely critical. Once Rehe Province is occupied, the entire North China
There will be no danger to defend the plains, and the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders will be like entering uninhabited territory. Now that the country is facing a national crisis, China's first priority is to resist Japan. Regardless of party, class, gender, age, or age, everyone has the responsibility to defend their homeland.
Responsibility for the Anti-Japanese War. I believe that when we established the China Civil Rights Protection Alliance, we should appeal and urge the government to put aside political differences and all citizens to work together to defend against the enemy! Brothers are fighting against the wall and resisting foreign aggression. The civil war should have been stopped long ago.
If Chairman Chiang Kai-shek's million-strong bandit-suppressing army could be mobilized to the Great Wall defense line to resist the Japanese, I don't think the Japanese invaders could easily occupy Rehe. But now, the Japanese invaders have broken through Shanhaiguan, and the soldiers on the Great Wall defense line are struggling
During the Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek personally went to Nanchang to direct the suppression of bandits. How unwise! It really caused pain to relatives and happiness to enemies! I traveled to Europe last year and found that the domestic anti-war sentiments of the British and French powers were strong, and their rulers practiced appeasement.
Policies, the League of Nations cannot speak for China! Facing the iron heel of the Japanese invaders, we can only unite and unite as one. We can no longer use our fragile national power for civil war. It will only make the Japanese invaders laugh and be deceived by other countries.
The great powers look down upon..."
Zhou Hexuan's speech mainly focused on the anti-Japanese war, which was the consensus of everyone present. As for other topics, it could only cause disputes because the components of the Civil Rights Alliance were too complex.
Historically, the split in the Civil Rights Alliance stemmed from Hu Shi's expulsion.
As future historians will evaluate, there are two views on civil rights within the Civil Rights League, namely the "revolutionary view of civil rights" represented by Mrs. Sun, and the "comprador bourgeois view of civil rights" represented by Hu Shi.
The premise of Hu Shi's "comprador bourgeois view of civil rights" is to recognize the legitimacy of the current regime, and to carry out the civil rights protection movement on this basis. However, Mrs. Sun's "revolutionary view of civil rights" does not recognize the legitimacy of the current regime.
, demanding the unconditional release of all political (harmony) prisoners.
They all have different concepts of civil rights, so when carrying out the movement to protect civil rights, strong differences will naturally arise.
"Pah, pah, pah!"
Zhou Hexuan's speech on the Anti-Japanese War won applause from the audience. No matter which faction he belonged to, everyone recognized his Anti-Japanese War proposition. This is the consensus of all patriots.
But Chang Kaishen was definitely not happy when he heard this, because Zhou Hexuan was openly opposing the national policy of "reconciling domestic affairs before fighting foreign forces."
Zhou Hexuan didn't bother to care about this. He was really, really angry. The Japanese invaders were storming the Great Wall defense line, but Chang Kaishen, as the head of state, actually mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to personally direct the so-called "bandit suppression" operation.
Zhang Xueliang needs to be responsible for the fall of Rehe Province, but Chang Kaishen has a greater responsibility!
At least Zhang Xueliang really wanted to resist the Japanese this time, but Chang Kaishen only sent two central troops to help, and the main force was busy attacking the red zone.
Now Zhou Hexuan finally fully understands why so many people with lofty ideals choose to sympathize with, help or directly join our party. Because Chang Kaishen is so disappointing, doing all the nonsense and completely ignoring the interests of the country and the people.
For child's play.
After several major figures gave speeches, Yang Xingfo reiterated the purpose of the China Civil Rights Protection League to oppose persecution by the Kuomintang government, assist and protect progressives, fight for freedom of association, speech, publication, assembly and other civil rights, and called on the government to actively resist Japan.
Next is the leadership election of the Peking branch.
Because Zhou Hexuan resolutely avoided resigning as chairman, Hu Shi was eventually elected as the president of the Peking branch, Li Ji was the vice president, and nine people including Hu Shi, Li Ji, Zhou Hexuan, Cheng Shewo, Chen Bosheng, Jiang Menglin, and Ma Youyu were executive members.
After the conference, Yang Xingfo found Zhou Hexuan, Hu Shi and Cheng Shewo to talk secretly. He said: "I have contacted Commander Zhang Xueliang. With his consent, we can visit the Peking Army Prison to learn about the basic principles of political (harmony) prison treatment in Peking."
This situation will also be conducive to the future work of the Peiping branch."
Hu Shi said excitedly: "Okay, just a few of us will go and take a look."
Cheng She and I also agreed: "This is the right thing to do."
Zhou Hexuan looked at Yang Xingfo in surprise, because Yang Xingfo's behavior was so abnormal. The Peiping branch had just been established, but he immediately went to the prison to investigate, showing that he was too anxious.
There is only one truth. Yang Xingfo had already discussed it with Mrs. Sun and the others. This trip to the Peking Army Prison to investigate the situation was just a cover. Their fundamental purpose was to rescue the Communists imprisoned there, and Hu Shi, Cheng She and I were all used
tools, including Zhou Hexuan.
Mrs. Sun, Yang Xingfo and others just wanted to use the fame and influence of Zhou Hexuan, Hu Shi and Chengshe to build momentum for the subsequent rescue of the Communist Party, and they did not make it clear to Zhou Hexuan and others in advance.
Hu Shi was a relatively naive person. Historically, he left happily. Later, he found out that he was being treated like a monkey. In anger, he immediately wrote a letter to publicly ridicule Mrs. Sun, which led to a split within the China Civil Rights Protection Alliance.
Zhou Hexuan didn't care. He was very happy to save a few Communists. If he was used by others, he would be used by others. Seeing that Hu Shi and Cheng She had already expressed their stance, he also smiled and said: "Okay, I will go to the prison with them."