POLITICAL INFORMATION: PROVISIONAL CITY COUNCIL, TIENTSIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200560007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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A: E xa a;a ,racy l te:m' .Jh n it was moved to Chungking. He is t e r: ht
z_...ac man of O`cy> th1AAj(j Po-4lnF President of Nankai
T`be re is a standing "corx ', e in the Council, consist i.1 P,
of mes hers., More than half of the thirty-one members of the
Counts:-1 are 11-wa'm:?.ntctng rtrelxib:ers and he rest non-partisaknc, One of
the ,t+.c r..t-r ertisan rnetnbe s of the standing committee believes that
the present Council. is a apse ful or gar, b ;cause, although the majority
Cc t('l.' cou.nc:4, are Kuomintang rlierabe?' s2 ;he- voice of the t_;`~ ou is
~4o:srnparatively r:non-par t:l_sa.n., However, i:f an election is held he
b-1J.1_ ves that the Kuomintang party men uou3d control the election
te a completely I u~amim.'mrztang-domimJ.m~y~at d council. On the Council
tams ere,
ai%e three professors, five party workers four industrial leader?s,
three newspape ~?raen, three officials repPesenting provihlcia.l or
Df' -t"l.onal Government organizations, two ,iomen, four, Labor?ers, two
1,,wyers and two others,, Terms of se vice of these members are
sup}nosed to be one year after which either their terms will he
stn ?1'' on;e ?? or a general election will take place o Although the
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the nembers receive no sal.ariesd A , .rz amount of, money for
trawil expense s
~s ra r d~. s of the standing
Ciaammc?rU r? 1 D::axri of Nankai University both in
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