1. PEOPL S PEACE MOVEMENT IN LEGISLATIVE YUAN 2. ARREST OF THOSE FAVORING RETIREMENT OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300040010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION r i `r i ? 25X1 A2g
CENTRAL INTELUGE C AGENCY REPORT NO
COUNTRY
China
SUBJECT
1,~
"People's Peace Movement" in Legislative Yuan
2.
Arrest of Those Favoring Retirement of CHIANG
Kai-shek
PLACE
ACQUIRED urn to CJ, LibrarDATE OF INF 25,
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, is openly advocating a
Peace-at.-any-pr ce policy. Adherents. of movement are mainly progressive
elements of the Kuomintang, while opponents are mainly in the CC Clique.
2. LI Tsung-jen and SHAO Li-tzu are privately backing the movement and verging
its representatives to maintain contacts with minority party and Kuomintang
Revolutionary Committee representatives in Shanghai.. LI also is urging-the
group to expand and hopes to incorporate it among his following when the
Generalissimo eventually leaves office.
25X1A6a t. The "People's Peace Movementlr group represents the popular
demand for peace which is be i
co
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d
3.
DATE DISTR. 18 January 194S
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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1. A "People 18 Peace Lovement," formed within the LARi 41,t1.,.. V.,"- I,.. nix., nrn
that category area # a persons in
apprehensive that there will be wholesale arrests and
assassinations when the Nationalist Government leaves Nanking. LI Tsung-jen
states that such persons can find sanctuary for themselves and their families
in any territory under the control of the Kwangsi Clique. Cornzuet25X1 A
Llls statement is further indication of a break botween the Kwangsi Clique
and the Generalissimo.)
m
ng w
espread throughout the country. Its
members believe that b
by making an overt move over the opposition of the
Generalissimo, they will gain a chance for preferential treatment under the
new government. Most of the members intend to try to stay behind in Nanking
when the Generalissimo flees.)
Secret police in Nanking are stepping up arrests of individuals known to
favor the retirement of the Generalissimo in the interest of securing peace,
To date those arrested include no ranking officials 'k-+ 11
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