Word: yat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These Principles Principles-nationalism, democracy and livelihood-were laid down by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1924 as the theoretical basis for reconstruction of China. They are the cardinal articles of faith of the Nationalist Party...
What China's friends abroad were saying in piecemeal a distinguished Chinese in China said right out loud and comprehensively: the nation of Sun Yat-sen has faltered on its path toward democracy, gone off into some darkly undemocratic byways...
...said so was none other than Founder Sun Yat-sen's stocky and genial son, Dr. Sun Fo, liberal president of China's Legislative Yuan. The forum for his denunciation of one-party misrule in China was none other than a meeting of that party-the all-powerful Kuomintang, which regards Dr. Sun Fo as its leading left-winger...
Intolerant Party. Before China can realize Sun Yat-sen's principle of democracy the Kuomintang must be basically reorganized. Twenty years after its reorganization, the party has no "democratic inspiration" for the nation. It suppresses criticism from outside and inside. It regards itself as "the sovereign power in the state, entitled to the enjoyment of a special position," though it directly represents only an "infinitesimal portion" (less than 1%) of China's 450,000,000 people...
Tiny, gentle Mme. Sun Yat-sen speaks rarely. But when she does speak up for the liberal, democratic program of her late great husband, her words can be strong as bitter...