PEIPING MEETING OF CONSTITUENT PARTIES OF UNITED FRONT DEPARTMENT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT t_r,g s,eetkkig of "Con; a.ttuent
,~Y?~, of United 'ron ')eparrtment
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SUPPLEMENT TO
EE:PORT NO,
the Un4tec. Fr:,rit De }r;rt.me?it in l E ir, ri c..a i'ed a..
cte soc ^utic _.=rtai:.s : Yki ; coupe
tinE of t.~(,- respons aLe o nr o: is of all
The essential matters docide v:ere:
a Politically the various. 'ei iocratic ;a ~t es and ~,,roE; os mu,-t iiiainta Li
a.-reeient with the th a rier C;?:)i< nun Lst s and accent the' r le- dorEh? w.
b. In order to oppose mcricu a, < u.i :ores, and secure the x~ too: a i_ d :fens e,
the activities of all r ro;u -,s must .,e based on the ?,ztli .',s
laid dc.)wr, for t.h.e "Three Big
c. The Chinese Co,,,:.un? sts are ta_ 1ling to as is tA:e ve *i,>us kt=~ ~oc.r `:.,ic
Parties to e. ? nd their ort'~;.rira_za ,iori and to :rov4 de `J &+' _'1 ..i: 1
finds.
d. The field from which domocrai,ic x:i:.rtia5 may recruit titei.r :13mher 3 may
bc3 ex-texicsea. Covers, ientu ca ns r re hitherto f`o uic ier ^ounra - LOW,
except for the mili try, for .- gn service, 1,, .ak)a_i(; e1l~
i rence or?--anizations, t e de . t. cratic :par. ies :.grid .%.ro,ps ri,..y ct'r'l.. 'J er
al -overI" ter.':tal orf'an , :U; i;':,rgets for their recruitment.
e. To avoid rn tual ooxl#li t tic= v ira ,;:.s -~r^oups ri o?a L Prop -re l:. ;t ; u
p:`ospect3_ve ..iembers ~iict 4 ar ;. t u t. L une another,
f o The ti ar:ious groups shi_xzld niaife e : - ,f -''arts to tare iX 4a -zn3r
Coilu;fu ist?a as ,:ossi. 1e:,
~o `f''2f? various ~?ai`'t.ii'?} 1?i:t t%$:llF; positive e~`'i:a to 'E','ke'_T?
o'-rn houses arid .rLtd.
h. Tie ` arioua de ocr it i C r7 ids must take zrag car(,t )
giard egain=sf. ii fi..ltr'a..i :n Y ;_:1 kro1 :1 .:riary e c.d'.';te and mu3t.
p?osoc-t?; ti,+mught df fend=ar Y
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2. LO Lung-chi was the leading speaker at the meeting. The parties participating
and the representatives of each were-
.2-LO Lung-chi ( , M k ; ` )
CHOU Hein -min (1 LjkJ )
The Kuomintang Revolutionary TIAN Ping-sban ("i =~ ' )
The Democratic League %HANG Lan (Jo,
CnU Yun-shan
The Democratic Reconstruction HUANG Yen-..pei (y ` tv.
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Society
Society for the Protection of
Democracy
Farmers and Workers Party
Chih Kung Tang
CHANG :Nai-chv i ( 13
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11Hau-lun (r/A~'}1
WANG Shao-ao (.L x'14.
CHANG Po-..chun k '1 )
110 Wen.p I u (i j
WANG Ch I en-lin ( i;; zR )
CI! EN CH4 i-yu
IIUANG Ting-ch' en (,_ l )
Chin San (Third of September) HSU Te'.heng (; ?f ';, i, )
Society 11-ILTANG Kutohang (.
3. Soon after this meeting the various democratic parties and groups held
meetings to discuss their organizational problems.
25X1A 3. Comment. Some of the people mentioned may be farther identified
as o owes
CHANG Lan has been known for some time to be chairman of the Democratic
League, He is a vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Government.
LO Lung-chi has been the secretary general. and spokeman for the Democratic
League. In 19246 he was in charge of the Min Chu Pao in Chungking, and in
19149 he was reported to be virtually a prisoner n fFeiping. He Is a member
of the Government Administration Council.
CHOU Hain-min is a deputy director of the Staff Office of the Government
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of the Democratic League.
T?AN Piing is on the Government Council, the Government Administration
Council, and is chairman of the Committee of People's Supervision. He was
reported to be on the supervisory committee of the San Min Chu I Youth Corps,
and0 stated that he was the leader of one of the five cliques in the
splintered Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee.
CHU Tun-span is a member of the CPP CC and a member of the Committee of
People's Supervision. In 1947 he was reported to be one of the founders
and organizers of the China Democratic Peace Movement League in Hong Kong.
HTUANG Yennpsei is a member of the Standing Commit-tee of the C?PCC, the
Government Council, the Government Administration Council, the Committee of
Finance and -Economics, and is the Minister of Light Industries. As a member
of the Political Consultative Conference (P00) he performed various functions
for the Kuomintang, including a trip to Yenan in the hope of bringing the
Chinese Communist Party members to the PCC.
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He has been connected with the All-China Education Workers' Association,
the Democratic League and is head of the Democratic Reconstruction
Society$
CHANG Nai-ch?i is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC,
the Government Administration Council., and the Committee of Finance and
Economics. At one time he was to be appointed as general manager of the
People's Bank, and in December 1949 was reported to be the head of the
Banker Group of the Democratic Reconstruction Association.
MA Hsu4lun is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC2 the
Government Council, the Government Administration Council, a vice chair-
man of the Committee of Culture and Education, and is the Minister of
Education. He is known to have been a leader in the Chinese Democracy
Promotion Society, a forme professor of philosophy at Chekiang University
and at Peiping University. In 1946 he was reported as editor of the
magazine Democracy. I he was reported to be connected with
the All China Education Workers' Association.
WANG Shao..ao is a Vice Minister of Finance. He has been reported to be
a native of Soochow, educated in Japan, and to have been living on loans
from friends for 35 rears. Having been imprisoned by the Kuomintang for
about a year, he was accepted by the Chinese Communists,
CHANG Po-chun is a member of the Standing Commmmittee.of the CPPCC, the
Government Council, the Government Administration Council, the Committee
of Finance and Economics, and is the Minist* of Communications. Ile was
the chief leader of the Third Party, the left wing of the Democratic
League. With HUANG Yen. p' ei he went to Yenan to try to bring the
Chinese Communist Party members to the PCC0 In 1918 he was reported to
be Chairman of the Farmers and Laborers Democratic Party of the Peace
Democratic League in Hong. Kong.
CH' EN Ch' i-.yu is a member of the C?PCC and the Kwangtung Government
Council. In 19149 he was reported to be Chairman of the.Chih Kung Tang,
and has been mentioned in connection with overseas Chinese groups.
HUANG Tingmch? en has been known as an important supporter of the Chih
Kung Tang since 19147.
HSUT Te.-heng is a member of the CP..')CC, the Committee of Political and
Legal Affairs, and the Commission of Law in the Ministry of Juetice.
At the end of the war he was a member of the Hopei-Chahar-Jehol-
Suiyuan section of a 'CC commission. I he was reported to be
head of the Chiu San Society, and it was stated that he had been recruited
for a three months training period.
HUANG Kuomchang was at one time the head of the City Planning Section
of the Central Planning Bureau, and a member of a Southern Fukien special
committee. In 1950 he was reported to be deputy chief of the organization
department and a commissioner in the Fukien Provincial Commnittee.
Comment. The history and organization of the United Frorit Depart-
di t ie names of a number of. the leading chiefs and department
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Personnel of the South China Bureau of the United Front Department,
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